<h1>Advance payment of income tax at authorised bank branches or online to avoid end period congestion and receipt delays.</h1> The Reserve Bank urges taxpayers to remit income-tax dues sufficiently before the deadline at RBI counters, authorised agency bank branches, or via online payment facilities offered by those banks to avoid end-period congestion; twenty-nine agency banks are authorised to accept such payments and the Bank provides additional counters where possible.