Section 271(1)(b) Penalty cannot be imposed if Assessment was Completed U/s. 143(3)

Sardarmal Kothari Vs ACIT (ITAT Chennai) ITAT held that when an assessment has been made under sec.143(3) and not under sec.144 of the I.T. Act, it means that subsequent compliance in the assessment proceedings was considered as good compliance and the defaults committed earlier were ignored by the Assessing Officer and, therefore, there is no case for levy of penalty under sec.271(1)(b) of the Act. In the present case, the assessee seems to have co-operated with the assessment proceedings by responding to the notices and filing information called for and the assessment was completed under sec...