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Rationalization of Time limits to Impose Income Tax Penalties

Income Tax : Simplified penalty timelines under Section 275 effective April 2025, including changes in penalty powers, omissions, and clarifica...

March 5, 2025 651 Views 0 comment Print

Draft Submissions: No Specific Default Date, No Section 271(1)(b) Penalty

Income Tax : Appeal against penalty under Section 271(1)(b) citing ill health, lack of awareness of Faceless Scheme, and procedural lapses. Req...

February 25, 2025 870 Views 0 comment Print

Section 115BBE: Sword Against Unexplained Income

Income Tax : Section 115BBE imposes a high tax rate on unexplained income to prevent tax evasion. Learn about tax rates, penalties, and complia...

February 22, 2025 1290 Views 0 comment Print

Proposed Amendments to Penalty Provisions in Income Tax Act

Income Tax : Income Tax Act amendments propose penalties by Assessing Officers instead of Joint Commissioners. Omission of section 271BB and ch...

February 3, 2025 654 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2025: Revised Time Limit for Imposing Income Tax Penalties Under Section 275

Income Tax : From April 2025, Section 275 amendments standardize the penalty timeline to six months from the end of the quarter in which procee...

February 2, 2025 2742 Views 0 comment Print


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Budget 2024: Revised Penalty Timeline for TDS/TCS Statements

Income Tax : Budget 2024 reduces penalty relief period for TDS/TCS statement filing from one year to one month. Changes effective April 2025....

July 26, 2024 2394 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2024 amends penalty for Undisclosed Foreign Income & Assets in ITR

Income Tax : New amendments to the Black Money Act from October 2024 raise the exemption threshold for penalties on foreign assets to ₹20 lak...

July 25, 2024 1806 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2024: Changes to Income Tax Penalty Limitation Period Provisions

Income Tax : Discover the proposed changes to Section 275 of the Income-tax Act, eliminating ambiguity in penalty imposition timelines. Effecti...

July 23, 2024 717 Views 0 comment Print

Late Fees, Interest, threat to levy penalty or to initiate prosecution – Tax Terrorism

CA, CS, CMA : People are held hostage in a cyber-world with ransom in the form of Late Fees and Interest and a threat to levy penalty or to init...

October 21, 2022 19581 Views 6 comments Print

Indiscriminate Income Tax notices without allowing reasonable time

Income Tax : In view of Indiscriminate notices by income Tax Department without allowing reasonable time it is requested to Finance Ministry an...

March 20, 2022 12966 Views 0 comment Print


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No Section 271(1)(c) Penalty on Estimated GP for Bogus Purchases

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai deletes penalty under Section 271(1)(c) on estimated GP additions for alleged bogus purchases in Om Sai Traders case f...

March 9, 2025 141 Views 0 comment Print

Entire Bank Transactions Cannot Be Treated as Turnover for Section 271B Penalty

Income Tax : ITAT Surat remands penalty case under Section 271B to AO, ruling that bank transactions alone cannot determine turnover. Fresh con...

March 8, 2025 2487 Views 0 comment Print

Debatable Tax Claims in Good Faith Don’t Attract Section 270A Penalties

Income Tax : ITAT Chennai rules that debatable tax claims made in good faith do not warrant penalties under Section 270A of the Income Tax Act....

March 8, 2025 189 Views 0 comment Print

Section 270A Penalty Doesn’t Require Mens Rea Presence: ITAT Bangalore

Income Tax : ITAT Bangalore held that that mens rea is not an essential condition for imposing penalties under civil acts. Penalty u/s. 270A of...

March 4, 2025 435 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi quashing Levy of penalty u/s 271(1) beyond period of limitation

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi quashes penalty on Babu Ram u/s 271(1)(c) as barred by limitation. Penalty order dated April 1, 2022, violated extended...

March 4, 2025 1569 Views 0 comment Print


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Failure to Produce Certified Copies of Register of Members & Share Transfer Forms (MGT-1, SH-4): MCA imposes Penalty

Company Law : Penalty imposed on Cryo Scientific Systems for failure to maintain proper registers under Companies Act 2013. Learn more about the...

August 23, 2024 816 Views 0 comment Print

NFRA Penalizes RCFL Auditors with ₹2.5 Crore Fine for Audit Misconduct

Company Law : The NFRA fines Shridhar & Associates and CA Ajay Vastani for professional misconduct in auditing RCFL's financials for FY 2018-19....

May 16, 2024 11829 Views 0 comment Print

Scope of Penalties to be assigned to Faceless Penalty Scheme, 2021

Income Tax : Order under Para 3 of the Faceless Penalty Scheme, 2021, for defining the scope of ‘Penalties’ to be assigned to the F...

February 26, 2021 2838 Views 0 comment Print

Limitation for penalty proceedings U/s. 271D & 271E

Income Tax : It is a settled position that period of limitation of penalty proceedings under section 271D and 271E of the Act is governed by th...

April 26, 2016 7390 Views 0 comment Print

Limitation commencement for penalty proceedings U/s. 271D &271E

Income Tax : It has been brought to notice of CBDT that there are conflicting interpretations of various High Courts on the issue whether the l...

April 26, 2016 2818 Views 0 comment Print


Section 271(1)(b) not stipulate any penalty for not responding to section 148 notice

December 12, 2022 909 Views 0 comment Print

Neeraj Kumar Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) From the penalty order, we observe that the Assessing Officer nowhere stated that the notices issued u/s 142(1) of the Act were served on the assessee. In the entire penalty order we observe that the notices said to have been issued by the AO but it is not the […]

Section 35(1)(ii) deduction cannot be denied for subsequent retrospective cancellation of approval 

November 23, 2022 1986 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee was entitled to relief on the certificate granted by the prescribed authority u/s 35(1)(ii) of the Act to the institution to which it donated the sum of money for claiming deduction under that section if it was subsisting and valid at the time the donation was made.

Section 271B penalty not justified for delay due to late appointment of Auditor by CAG

November 23, 2022 1251 Views 0 comment Print

Madhya Pradesh Audyogik Kendra Vikas Nigam (Indore) Limited Vs DCIT (ITAT Indore) The assessee has challenged the penalty to the tune of Rs.1,50,000/-levied under Section 271B of the Act. The assessee, a Government company, wherein appointment of Auditor in the case of the appellant was governed by the provision of section 619(2) of the Companies […]

Section 271(1)(c) Penalty not imposable if no addition to income

November 22, 2022 1890 Views 0 comment Print

Since additions have been deleted, the very foundation to visit assessee with penalty does not survive. Hence, no penalty is imposable upon assessee

Penalty notice become defective if it does not disclose specific charge

November 21, 2022 1257 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Amit Tiwari (ITAT Indore) The submissions of the assessee are that penalty proceedings u/s 271AAB as initiated is bad in law on account of firstly penalty notice so issued is defective as it does not disclose specific charge and secondly there is no concealed income as search took place prior to due date […]

No concealment penalty if expense claimed twice reversed in subsequent year

November 21, 2022 618 Views 0 comment Print

It is not in dispute that the assessee accounted for provision of interest twice by mistake and on realising such mistake, necessary rectification entries were passed in the subsequent year and the same was offered as income.

Interest & Penalty Provisions Under Income Tax Act, 1961

November 20, 2022 5499 Views 0 comment Print

Interest and penalty provisions apply to the assessee when he contravenes the provisions of the Income Tax Act. Some of them are mandatory while others are at the discretion of the tax authorities.

Section 271(1)(c) penalty cannot be levied on Income Tax Additions on Ad-Hoc Basis

November 17, 2022 2754 Views 0 comment Print

Additions made on ad-hoc basis on estimation does not attract penalty under section 271(1)(c) of the Act as there is no conclusive proof of concealment of income or furnishing of inaccurate particulars of income.

Section 270AA- An option to avoid penalty implications in case of under-reporting and mis-reporting of income

November 17, 2022 18714 Views 0 comment Print

Explore the provisions of Section 270AA, offering a strategic avenue for assessees to avoid penalties for under-reporting or mis-reporting of income. Learn about the conditions, application process, and the responsibility of the revenue to guide assesses through this insightful article.

Penalty u/s 271(1)(c) unsustainable as issue already decided in assessee’s favour

November 7, 2022 651 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi held that penalty under section 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act unsustainable as claim of deduction u/s. 80IA(4) already decided in favour of the assessee.

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