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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 642 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 864 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 1275 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 651 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 2733 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 48 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 906 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 141 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 1563 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 271B penalty notice after 30 months of completion of assessment is not sustainable

August 12, 2022 2307 Views 0 comment Print

Levy of penalty by the assessing officer after passage 30 months after the completion of the assessment, we are of the opinion that the penalty proceedings are barred by limitation and consequently penalties levied under section 271B cannot be sustained

Penalty u/s 271F leviable for failure to furnish AIR

August 10, 2022 837 Views 0 comment Print

Held that penalty u/s 271F leviable as the assessee being a co-operative bank failed to furnish annual information annual information return

Section 271AAB penalty not imposable if no Search Conducted on Assessee

August 4, 2022 729 Views 0 comment Print

A perusal of Section 271AAB would reveal that it is applicable where search has been initiated under section 132 of Income Tax Act

No section 271(1)(c) penalty if notice fails to specify Concealment or Furnishing of Inaccurate Particulars of Income

July 26, 2022 7098 Views 0 comment Print

Kalra Papers Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) The penalty provisions of section 271(1)(c) of the Act are attracted, where the Assessee has concealed the particulars of income or furnished inaccurate particulars of such income. It is also a well-accepted proposition that the aforesaid two limbs of section 271(1)(c) of the Act carry different meanings. […]

Penalty cannot be levied on charges not forming part of penalty proceeding initiation 

July 21, 2022 669 Views 0 comment Print

It is settled position of law that AO cannot levy penalty on charges different from the charges for which penalty proceedings were initiated

Late Filing of Appeal – Scarcity of Advisors not valid reason for SBI

July 18, 2022 735 Views 0 comment Print

State Bank of India Vs ACIT (ITAT Pune) We find that the assessee had deducted TDS as per rates prescribed by the Act and the same was deposited in Central Government account, but with a delay in filing the TDS statement as required under law. For such failure the respondent-revenue levied late fee u/s. 234E […]

Section 271(1)(c) penalty not leviable if Specific Charge not mentioned in Notice

July 13, 2022 957 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee must be informed of the grounds of the penalty proceedings only through statutory notice and an omnibus notice suffers from the vice of vagueness.

ITAT deletes Section 271G penalty for non-submission of comparable prices of diamonds

July 10, 2022 459 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Interjwel private limited (ITAT Mumbai) The assessee submitted that in a diamond business world over there are estimated 8000 – 10,000 different qualities of diamonds price of which depends on various factors and note to diamonds can have the same price as valuation also depends upon the perception of individual businessman. Assessee therefore […]

No penalty for Addition on Estimation Basis under section 271(1)(c)

July 3, 2022 3405 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT held that when addition was made on estimation basis that by itself does not lead to conclusion that assessee either concealed the particulars of income or furnished inaccurate particulars of such income.

Section 271AAB penalty not valid if AO not mention specific default of assessee

June 30, 2022 2484 Views 0 comment Print

Explore Mahaveer Prasad Agarwal vs. DCIT case at ITAT Jaipur, analyzing discretionary penalties under sections 271AAB and 271 of the Income Tax Act.

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