Dear Taxpayers,

The Following enhancements have been made to address-related fields in the registration functionalities: New Registration, Amendment Application (Core & Non-Core), and Geocoding Business Addresses. These enhancements are based on the analysis of tickets and user feedback. The details are as follows:

1. Update in Validations applicable while entering the address in address-related fields.

a. Address is in India:

• The fields PIN Code, State, District, and City/Town/Village are interlinked and must be selected from the autosuggestions.

• For other fields, taxpayer in addition to alphanumeric values can add limited special characters such as Hyphen (-), Forward Slash (/), Ampersand (&), Comma (,), Apostrophes ('), Hash(#), Period(.), Small Brackets (), Inverted Commas (""), Colon (:), Semi Colon (;), Underscore (_) and Space. Other Special Characters are not allowed.

• Additionally, special characters are not allowed at the beginning of the entry.
• Example: When entering an address, you can input "123 Main St. #4, Apt (5A)" but not "#123 Main St." as special characters like the hash(#) are not permitted at the beginning.