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Foreign Assets, RSUs and Foreign Bank Accounts in ITR: Schedule FA Reporting, Notices & Penalty

Income Tax : Resident taxpayers holding foreign assets or financial interests may be required to file returns and disclose such assets regardle...

June 2, 2026 2205 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Section 270A Penalty Due to Defective Notice and Bona Fide Reliance on Form 16

Income Tax : The Tribunal ruled that non-specification of the precise statutory charge under sections 270A(2) and 270A(9) violated principles o...

May 15, 2026 540 Views 0 comment Print

Penalties Imposable under Income-tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : The framework outlines penalties for defaults like under-reporting, TDS failures, and non-compliance, while allowing relief where ...

April 9, 2026 849 Views 0 comment Print

₹200 per day Penalty Introduced for Non-Reporting of Crypto Transactions

Income Tax : Furnishing incorrect crypto-asset information without rectification can attract a fixed penalty. The amendment strengthens account...

February 3, 2026 8145 Views 0 comment Print

Income Tax Penalties Replaced by Fixed Fees to Cut Compliance Litigation

Income Tax : The Finance Bill, 2026 converts key penalties for audit and reporting delays into mandatory fees. The shift aims to reduce dispute...

February 2, 2026 4161 Views 0 comment Print


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Budget 2026: Penalty & Assessment Proceedings Merged to Reduce Tax Litigation

Corporate Law : The Budget proposes a single integrated order for assessment and penalty to avoid parallel proceedings. The key takeaway is reduce...

February 1, 2026 1251 Views 0 comment Print

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 3303 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 4485 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 1728 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 19968 Views 6 comments Print


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Section 270A Penalty Deleted as Estimated Profit Addition Cannot Prove Misreporting

Income Tax : The ITAT held that penalty for misreporting of income cannot be levied when the underlying addition is based merely on estimation ...

June 7, 2026 309 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi Deletes Section 271(1)(c) Penalty as Notice Lacked Specific Charge

Income Tax : The Delhi ITAT upheld deletion of a penalty after finding that the show-cause notice failed to specify the applicable limb of Sect...

June 5, 2026 102 Views 0 comment Print

Advance Tax Payment Not Shield from Penalty for Concealment of Capital Gains: Madras HC

Income Tax : The assessee argued that payment of advance tax demonstrated absence of concealment. The High Court held that a subsequent conscio...

May 31, 2026 462 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Section 272A(1)(d) Penalty as Assessment Was Completed After Accepting Replies

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that penalty under Section 272A(1)(d) could not survive once the Assessing Officer completed assessment under Se...

May 21, 2026 540 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Reduces Section 271(1)(b) Penalty by treating Multiple Notice Defaults as One

Income Tax : The ITAT Visakhapatnam reduced a penalty under Section 271(1)(b) from Rs.30,000 to Rs.10,000 after treating non-compliance with th...

May 18, 2026 345 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 1866 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 12762 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 3114 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 7840 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 3070 Views 0 comment Print


Section 271B penalty notice after 30 months of completion of assessment is not sustainable

August 12, 2022 2850 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 1008 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 1125 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 7326 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 870 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 915 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 1134 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 627 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 4020 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 3360 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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