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Cash Transaction Limits Under Income Tax Law

Income Tax : The provisions regulate acceptance, payment, and receipt of cash beyond specified limits. They impose strict penalties to discoura...

April 5, 2026 14379 Views 0 comment Print

Avoid 100% Penalty on Cash Loans and Deposits Because ₹20,000 Is the Limit

Income Tax : Covers the latest cash withdrawal, deposit, and loan limits. Takeaway: exceeding thresholds can trigger TDS, penalties, and blocke...

December 31, 2025 2106 Views 0 comment Print

Prohibited transaction in cash/limit on cash transactions

Income Tax : Summary of income-tax rules on cash limits, including disallowance of cash expenditure, restrictions on loans, deposits, receipts,...

November 15, 2025 29535 Views 0 comment Print

FAQs on Disallowance of cash expenses or limit on cash transactions

Income Tax : Indian tax law restricts cash transactions to promote digital payments. Limits apply to expense payments (Sec 40A(3): ₹10k/day),...

October 30, 2025 4149 Views 0 comment Print

Various Threshold Limits under Income Tax Act

Income Tax : This report provides a consolidated overview of the critical monetary threshold limits stipulated under various sections of the In...

October 28, 2025 368255 Views 44 comments Print


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SIT report: Restrict Cash Transaction/Holding to curb black money

Income Tax : It is suggested that there should be a positive provision under the I.T. Act that any transaction involving more than Rs.3,00,000/...

July 14, 2016 24190 Views 0 comment Print


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Penalty U/s 271DA & 271E Invalid When Original Assessment Set Aside – ITAT Deletes Penalties

Income Tax : The tribunal examined whether penalties could continue when the fresh assessment order did not record satisfaction for initiating ...

March 14, 2026 501 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Ahmedabad Deletes U/s 271D & 271E Penalty; Cash Loans for Son’s Education Genuine, Reasonable Cause U/s 273B Proven

Income Tax : ITAT held that cash loans taken for son’s education were bona fide and supported by evidence. Reasonable cause under Section 273...

February 24, 2026 723 Views 0 comment Print

Penalty U/s 271D & 271E Deleted – Partner Capital Cash Not Covered U/s 269SS/269T: ITAT Kolkata

Income Tax : The ITAT Kolkata held that cash introduced by partners as capital contribution in an LLP does not attract Section 269SS and theref...

February 21, 2026 2346 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Hyderabad Deletes Sec 271D Penalty; Property Sale Cash Not Hit by Sec 269SS

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that cash received at the time of executing a registered sale deed does not fall within the definition of “spe...

February 17, 2026 1212 Views 0 comment Print

PCIT Oversteps Powers by Ordering Penalty Without Assessment Finding

Income Tax : The ITAT ruled that absence of recorded satisfaction in the assessment order bars initiation of penalty under Section 271E. Superv...

January 21, 2026 366 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


CBDT notifies more modes of e-payments; 6DD limit reduced to ₹ 10000

Income Tax : Notification No. 8/2020-Income-Tax- CBDT has notified Other electronic modes by inserting New Income TAx Rule 6ABBA. It also amend...

January 29, 2020 14142 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT relaxes PAN requirement for Section 269T reporting in 3CD

Income Tax : G.S.R. 841(E).—In the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue (Central Board of Dire...

July 6, 2017 6372 Views 1 comment Print

CBDT amends form 3CD to revise reporting U/s. 269SS & 269T

Income Tax : In the Income-tax Rules, 1962, in Appendix II, in Form No. 3CD, for serial number 31 and the entries relating thereto the followin...

July 3, 2017 130821 Views 9 comments Print

Section 269SS and 269T applicable to NBFC: RBI

Fema / RBI : Section 269SS and 269T of the Income Tax Act, 1961, the requirements under the Income Tax Act, 1961, as amended from time to time,...

March 9, 2017 23658 Views 0 comment Print


Explanatory Guide to Section 269SS and 269T

August 3, 2019 13083 Views 2 comments Print

Sections 269SS and 269T have been discussed in this article and this deals with cash payment and repayment of loans and deposits. Both the sections were introduced to curb the black money. Tax evasion is one of the serious problems in India causing economic disparities. False cash transactions give birth to unaccounted money which in turn […]

No Penalty for Loan in cash for sisters marriage which was repaid through RTGS

May 10, 2019 2685 Views 0 comment Print

: Where there existed reasonable cause for the assessee in accepting the loans in cash and particularly as the loans were repaid by way of RTGS, i.e., via banking channels, penalty levied by AO under section 271D was deleted.

Brief Study of Section 269ST of Income Tax Act, 1961

April 3, 2019 16338 Views 0 comment Print

In this article we will understand why section 269ST is introduced and what is the need of invoking such provisions, Section 269ST was introduced by finance act, 2017 in Income tax act, 1961 by the central government in order to curb the tax evasion, regulation and circulation of Black money. Most of the transactions in […]

ITAT deletes penalty on Cash loan taken from unorganized finance sector to repay lenders

April 1, 2019 1404 Views 0 comment Print

M/s. P.R. Associates Vs ACIT (ITAT Pune) We find that the assessee specifically submitted before the AO during the course of penalty proceedings, which fact has also been captured in the penalty order, that its business was inoperative for the last 7 years and it had already borrowed loans from Shree Suvarna Sahakari Bank Ltd. […]

Cash Loan- Penalty justified on failure to establish Business exigency or urgency 

March 23, 2019 1416 Views 0 comment Print

M. Sougoumarin Vs ACIT (Madras High Court) High Court held that there was no such reason for regular loan transactions of borrowing and repayment in cash of amounts exceeding Rs.20,000/- so as to escape penal liability under Sections 271E and 271D of the IT Act. FULL TEXT OF THE HIGH COURT ORDER / JUDGMENT These […]

Penalty not leviable for cash loan taken/paid to comply re-settlement scheme of BIFR

March 2, 2019 1923 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee was not liable for penalty under section 271D and 271E for availing cash loans/deposits in violation of section 269SS and 269T as it had availed the facility in order to re-establish itself, and for fulfilment of promises given for the purpose of BIFR which was a reasonable cause foe not levying penalty.

Section 269SS not applies to loan transaction between husband and wife

February 21, 2019 8514 Views 0 comment Print

Provisions of section 269SS was not applicable to the loan transaction between husband and wife because there was no relationship of the depositor or a creditor and no interest of parties were involved.

Relaxation of Penalty U/S 271DA for Violation of Section 269ST

January 11, 2019 65016 Views 6 comments Print

Finance Act 2017, instead of amending section 273B, inserted a proviso to section 271DA itself to the effect that, no penalty shall be imposable if such person proves that there were good and sufficient reasons for the contravention of section 269ST. However, what could constitute good and sufficient reasons for contravention have not been defined.

Reportable / Cash Transactions and TCS – Limit and Penalty

December 15, 2018 22653 Views 0 comment Print

Article covers Cash Transactions provisions (Section 269SS, 269T, 269ST, 43), Reportable Transaction provisions (Section 285BA, Rule 114E) and Transaction on which Tax has to be collected at Source (TCS) (Section 206C)

HC upheld penalty for Cash Loan exceeding Rs. 20000 Taken & repaid

September 17, 2018 2280 Views 0 comment Print

These appeals are against an order dated 31-3-2016 passed by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal B Bench, Chennai, allowing the appeals, being I.T.A.Nos.262 and 263/Mds/2015, in relation to the assessment years 2008-2009 and 2012-2013 filed by the respondent Revenue and restoring the penalty imposed by the Assessing Officer under Sections 271E and 271D of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the IT Act).

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