No Penalty under section 271(1)(c) if Addition on estimate basis

Shri Radhey Shyam Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) Assessing Officer, in the penalty order, has observed that the assesseee had concealed the income and has furnished inaccurate particulars. However, the penalty order is woefully silent on the issue as to how this satisfaction of concealment/furnishing of inaccurate particulars was arrived at. The penalty was imposed on the quantum addition which was estimated by applying the net profit rate of 5% as against the net profit rate of 3.65% declared by the assessee. Thus, the addition was, at best, an estimate of the profit by the AO which the assessee would ...