In order to achieve the mission of the Government to move towards a less cash economy to reduce generation and circulation of black money, the Finance Act 2017 inserted section 269ST in the Act to provide that no person shall receive an amount of two lakh rupees or more
Section 245E of the Act was inserted in year 1975, amended in 1984, 1987 and the provisions were made inapplicable for applications filed on or after 01-06-2007. The erswhile provisions of section 245E reads as under
(a) Where penalty is levied on certain additions on ground of mis-reporting and certain additions on ground of only under-reporting than assessee will have to make a choice whether to file appeal or make application for immunity as he cannot file appeal on penalty levied on mis-reported income and immunity application for under-reported income.
As per section 271D & 271E, if a person accepts/repays a loan or deposit or specified sum/advance, as the case may be in contravention with the provisions of section 269SS/269T, he shall be liable to pay, by way of penalty, a sum equal to the amount of loan or deposit.
Section 271AAB provides for imposition of penalty at specified rates where search has been initiated. The rate of penalty varies from 10% to 60 % depending on the time when the assessee admits the undisclosed income.
Section 271AAB provides for imposition of penalty @ 10% on undisclosed income found during the course of search and admitted at the stage of search. Undisclosed income not admitted at the stage of search but disclosed in the return of income filed after the search to attract penalty @ 20%.
The Finance Act 2017 has inserted a new provision by way of section 271J which provides that where the Assessing Officer (AO) or Commissioner (Appeals) {CIT(A)}, in the course of any proceedings under the Income-tax Act 1961, finds that an accountant or a merchant banker or a registered valuer (hereinafter referred to as professional)
Sales and purchases of shares exceeding a specified amount respectively in the case of day traders. This information can be filed by the concerned brokers who are dealing with the day traders.
Section 282A provides for issue of any income tax notice or other document without it being signed by the requisite authority. Although, the said section has been provided in the context of computerized generation of notices and other documents
Section 281B empowers Assessing Officer to invoke bank guarantee wholly or in part if demand raised on the assessee is not paid within time limit provided in the demand notice served. Very wide powers are conferred upon Assessing Officer.
