Income Tax : The framework outlines penalties for defaults like under-reporting, TDS failures, and non-compliance, while allowing relief where ...
Income Tax : Furnishing incorrect crypto-asset information without rectification can attract a fixed penalty. The amendment strengthens account...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill, 2026 converts key penalties for audit and reporting delays into mandatory fees. The shift aims to reduce dispute...
Income Tax : The law now proposes a single consolidated assessment-cum-penalty order for under-reporting of income, reducing multiple proceedin...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that penalty under Section 271DA cannot be imposed when the assessment order lacks recorded satisfaction of a 26...
Corporate Law : The Budget proposes a single integrated order for assessment and penalty to avoid parallel proceedings. The key takeaway is reduce...
Income Tax : Budget 2024 reduces penalty relief period for TDS/TCS statement filing from one year to one month. Changes effective April 2025....
Income Tax : New amendments to the Black Money Act from October 2024 raise the exemption threshold for penalties on foreign assets to ₹20 lak...
Income Tax : Discover the proposed changes to Section 275 of the Income-tax Act, eliminating ambiguity in penalty imposition timelines. Effecti...
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...
Income Tax : The case addressed ambiguity in penalty proceedings where the specific charge was not identified. The Court upheld deletion of pen...
Income Tax : The case involved an ambiguous penalty notice that did not clarify whether the charge was concealment or inaccurate particulars. T...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that penalty under section 271(1)(c) cannot be sustained when identical facts in earlier years led to deletion. ...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that penalty proceedings are invalid where the Assessing Officer does not specify whether the charge is concealment ...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that omission of taxable foreign exchange gain in the return attracts penalty. It noted that disclosure during a...
Company Law : Penalty imposed on Cryo Scientific Systems for failure to maintain proper registers under Companies Act 2013. Learn more about the...
Company Law : The NFRA fines Shridhar & Associates and CA Ajay Vastani for professional misconduct in auditing RCFL's financials for FY 2018-19....
Income Tax : Order under Para 3 of the Faceless Penalty Scheme, 2021, for defining the scope of ‘Penalties’ to be assigned to the F...
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...
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...
Agarwal Packers & Movers Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) Merely because if a claim is rejected by Assessing Officer, would not ipso facto made the assessee liable for penalty Now, coming to the penalty confirmed in respect of addition sustained on account of disallowance of claim of depreciation. One of the averments of the assessee […]
Asha Yadav Vs ITO (ITAT Jaipur) We are of the view that the AO had levied the penalty @ Rs. 10,000/- for non compliance of notices Under section 142(1) of the Act. As it was clear from the provisions of Section 271(1)(b) that this provision can be invoked only for non compliance of notice Under […]
Where additions have been deleted by Tribunal in quantum proceedings, penalty under section 271(1c) levied by AO not sustainable
Pranav Kumar Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) We have carefully considered the rival submissions made by both the sides and perused the material on record. The issue in the present appeal is with respect to levy of penalty under section 271(1)(c) of the I.T. Act, 1961. In the present appeal, the show cause notice dated 27.11.2017 […]
In our considered opinion, additions which are mere estimated additions do not attract penalty u/s 271(1)(c) and it is not a fit case of levy of penalty.
Jhodinda Bhojpura Gram Sewa Sahakari Samiti Ltd Vs ITO (ITAT Jaipur) It is well-settled that assessment proceedings and penalty proceedings are separate and distinct and as held by the Supreme Court in the case of Ananthraman Veera singhaiah & Co.Vs. CIT [1980] 123 ITR 457, the finding in the assessment proceedings cannot be regarded as […]
Mayur Batra Vs ACIT (Delhi High Court) Petitioner states that before levying the penalty under section 271(1)(c), the replies of the petitioner filed on 17th December, 2021 and reiterated as well as uploaded on 22nd and 27th January, 2022 were not considered by the respondents. He further states that the petitioner has not been granted […]
In view of Indiscriminate notices by income Tax Department without allowing reasonable time it is requested to Finance Ministry and CBDT that suitable steps should be taken so that adequate time is allowed for compliance and cases are not disposed of in a hurry, without giving adequate opportunity for the taxpayer to be heard. The […]
Lucknow CA Tax Practicioners Association has made a Representation to FM for Extension of Time Limit for Assessment cases time barring as on 31.3.22 under the Income Tax Act 1961 in view of Problems faced in completion of Reopened Assessment cases (letting time barred on 31st March 2022, Problems faced in completion of Assessment as […]
Jayanti Dalmia Vs DCIT (Delhi High Court) In this case ITAT has upheld the order of CIT with respect to non-compliance of notice issued under Section 142(1) of Income Tax Act, 1961 by the Appellant-assessee and the consequent imposition of penalty under Section 271(1)(b) of the Act. Briefly stated the relevant facts are that the […]
