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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


Latest Judiciary


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 312 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


No Section 271(1)(b) penalty where assessment is completed u/s 143(3)

June 27, 2022 783 Views 0 comment Print

Explore the case of Salasar Derivatives Pvt. Ltd. against ITO, focusing on the justification of penalty under section 271(1)(b) of the Income Tax Act. Detailed analysis and conclusion.

Prosecutions and Punishment under Income Tax Act, 1961

June 11, 2022 51291 Views 7 comments Print

Apart from penalty for various defaults, the Income-tax Act also contains provisions for launching prosecution proceedings against the taxpayers for various offences. In this part you can gain knowledge about the various provisions relating to prosecution which can be launched under the Income-tax Act.

Fees & Penalty for late / Non filing of TDS Return

June 10, 2022 972382 Views 116 comments Print

No filing or Late filing of TDS returns or TDS statement shall invite 2 penal consequence 1.Fee for late filing U/s 234E and 2. Penalty for late filing or Non filing of TDS statement U/s 271H.

Income Tax Offences liable to prosecution

June 8, 2022 58604 Views 4 comments Print

Apart from levy of penalty for various defaults by the taxpayer, the Income-tax Law also contains provisions for launching prosecution for offences committed by the taxpayer. In this part you can gain knowledge about offences in respect of which prosecutions can be launched under the Income-tax Law.

Power of Commissioner to Reduce or Waive Income Tax Penalty

June 8, 2022 64858 Views 3 comments Print

In the tutorial on Penalties Under the Income-tax Act, we discussed various penalties imposable under the Income-tax Act in respect of various defaults. Apart from enacting penalty provisions

Penalties under Income-Tax Act, 1961

June 8, 2022 113194 Views 2 comments Print

Under the Income-tax Act, penalties are levied for various defaults committed by the taxpayer. Some of the penalties are mandatory and a few are at the discretion of the tax authorities. In this part, you can gain knowledge about the provisions relating to various penalties leviable under the Income-tax Act.

ITAT exonerate assessee incurring huge losses from section 271(1)(b) penalty

May 15, 2022 1047 Views 0 comment Print

No mala fide can be inferred where assessee is nursing such huge losses at its disposal. ITAT find that mitigating circumstances exists to exonerate assessee from clutches of penalty under Section 271(1)(b)

Mere rejection of claim would not ipso facto make assessee liable for penalty

May 10, 2022 924 Views 0 comment Print

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 […]

Non-compliance due to change in Address- ITAT deletes section 271(1)(b) Penalty

May 3, 2022 1548 Views 0 comment Print

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 […]

No section 271(1)(c) penalty on additions deleted by ITAT

May 2, 2022 1455 Views 0 comment Print

Where additions have been deleted by  Tribunal in quantum proceedings, penalty under section 271(1c) levied by AO not sustainable

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