Income Tax

How to solve “please select type of account” error appearing at incometax e-portal.

How to solve “please select type of account” error appearing while filing online income tax return at e-portal.

It has been reported by many users that while filing online their return of income at e-filing portal at validation stage an error is displayed showing an error with message “please select type of account” in field “Type of account”.

As we know, the Income Tax Department has still not finished making available all the return form and it seems that the online facility for filing return namely ITR-1 and ITR-3 is still not free from bugs that is causing unnecessary trouble to users.

The screenshot of the error message displayed is as under:

The e-portal has not issued any advisory to resolve this issue. However, by trial and error, the following steps have been able to solve the error message.

Steps to resolve “please select type of account” error are as under:

1.Log in to e-portal and go to profile page

2.Go to tab my bank account

3. Go to tab “Added bank accounts” and click on “view bank account details”.

3. You will see (i) Added Bank Accounts and (ii) Failed Bank Accounts list

4. Go to tab “Added Bank accounts”

5. Click on “view bank accounts details: and check if account type “savings/current etc.” is appearing under “Type of account”.

6. If the “Type of account” is not mentioned, edit the details/add bank account again after removal.

7. Delete all bank accounts under the tab ”Failed Bank Accounts” which will require EVC to be done OTP sent to mobile registered in Aadhaar.

8. If the error message is still displayed on ITR validation, under the tab “Added Bank Accounts” first disable the slider for “nominated for refund” and then enable it.

Note: If the assessee have only one bank account, then do the above step from return summary page under “Part-A General Information”.

Hopefully, this should resolve the problem of show error message asking to select type of account.

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