The previous ITR-4 is now replaced with ITR-3 in this AY 2017-18. Both the XML and Excel utility are giving XML related errors.
The Excel utility is successfully validating and generating XML within the utility. However e-filing this on the incometax website gives :
The XML Schema is invalid. Please upload the XML in correct schema. At Line Number 60: The content of element 'ITRForm:Auditinfo' is not complete.....
Being an IT person I validated this XML myself and it appears to be syntactically valid.
57 <ITRForm:AuditInfo>
58 <ITRForm:LiableSec44AAflg>N</ITRForm:LiableSec44AAflg>
59 <ITRForm:LiableSec44ABflg>N</ITRForm:LiableSec44ABflg>
60 </ITRForm:AuditInfo>
The online validation being done while uploading has some bugs -- or the XML being created by XLS tool is not what the online systems expects !
The Java utility is showing 8 errors of "Please enter numeric values" . Only God knows which field is this error referring to ???
Does anyone here face similar issues and knows what is the work-around ?
Wonder when will the IT dept or Infosys or whosoever is managing this website and systems do a proper sanity and complete end to end test before rolling new stuff out to public. At least make an online provision for end-users to log such complaints with screenshots and someone urgently handle this issues with these tools and online system. Those 1.5% income tax payers in this country are so harassed even for e-filing !
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