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No Penalty for Voluntary Correction of Bona fide computational mistakes During Assessment 

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that penalty under section 271(1)(c) cannot be imposed when errors are voluntarily corrected during assessment. ...

March 20, 2026 711 Views 0 comment Print

Penalties and Prosecutions Under Income tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : A summary of key penalties under the Income Tax Act for AY 2026-27, covering defaults from late filing and non-payment to misrepor...

October 28, 2025 532074 Views 4 comments Print

Penalty u/s 271(1)(c) Not Sustainable for Bona Fide 54F Claim Delayed by Builder Default: ITAT Delhi

Income Tax : ITAT Delhi held penalty u/s 271(1)(c) unsustainable as 54F exemption failed due to builder delay, not taxpayer’s fault. Full dis...

July 16, 2025 1182 Views 0 comment Print

Invalid Income-tax Section 271(1)(c) Penalty: Non-Specific Charge Legal Analysis

Income Tax : Understand why an income-tax penalty under Section 271(1)(c) is invalid if the charge isn't specified as concealment or inaccurate...

June 7, 2025 3381 Views 0 comment Print

Penalty Proceedings Deferred must be During Quantum Appeal: Legal Framework & Judicial Insights

Income Tax : Learn how taxpayers can defer income tax penalty proceedings when quantum additions are under appeal. Understand legal grounds and...

June 6, 2025 5223 Views 0 comment Print


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Easwar Committee Recommends Non-Levy Of Penalty in certain circumstances

Income Tax : The Committee recommends that the scope of Section 273B should be suitably enlarged to provide that penalty for concealment of inc...

January 21, 2016 1162 Views 0 comment Print


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ITAT Rajkot Quashes Reassessment as Escaped Income Was Below ₹50 Lakh Threshold

Income Tax : Tribunal held that reassessment beyond three years was not permissible where alleged escaped income was only ₹38 lakh. Since sta...

June 7, 2026 9 Views 0 comment Print

No Section 271(1)(c) Penalty if Full Disclosure Made in Return & Audit Report: ITAT Rajkot

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that penalty was not justified where all relevant facts were disclosed in the return of income, audit report, an...

June 7, 2026 51 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 81 Views 0 comment Print

Section 68 Addition Quashed as Loans Were Repaid Through Banking Channels: ITAT Ahmedabad

Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that unsecured loan additions could not be sustained where the assessee furnished confirmations, bank statemen...

June 5, 2026 246 Views 0 comment Print

No 14A Disallowance Without Satisfaction, No Penalty on Debatable Issues

Income Tax : The Bangalore ITAT held that a disallowance under Section 14A read with Rule 8D cannot survive without the Assessing Officer recor...

June 4, 2026 162 Views 0 comment Print


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Immunity under Section 270AA of Income-tax Act, 1961- CBDT Clarifies

Income Tax : Section 270AA of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) inter alia provides that w.e.f. 1 st April, 2017, the Assessing Officer, on an...

August 16, 2018 12054 Views 0 comment Print


No section 271(1)(c) penalty if notice was vague & ambiguous

August 24, 2021 5613 Views 0 comment Print

Addl. CIT Vs Airports Authority of India (ITAT Delhi) Perusal of the order passed by the ld. CIT (A) shows that the ld. CIT(A) deleted the penalty on two grounds : (i) that no valid notice u/s 274 of the Act has been issued to the assessee so as to inform the assessee as to […]

No penalty for preferring a claim which is unacceptable to Revenue

August 23, 2021 2259 Views 0 comment Print

HCL Technologies Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) Levy of penalty in this case is unsustainable because mere preferring a claim which is unacceptable to the Revenue does not ipso facto lead to levy of penalty. Here in this case, Form No. 56F duly signed by the Chartered Accountant justifies the plea of bona fide belief […]

No penalty u/s 271(1)(c) when returned income accepted filed in response to notice u/s 148

August 12, 2021 32715 Views 4 comments Print

In the case of the assessee at present no finding was recorded in the assessment order that there was concealment of income.The assessee has not furnished inaccurate particulars of its income.True income of the assesseee was declared in the return filed by the assessee after issue of the notice u/ s 148 of the act . And the case of the assessee was made u/s 143(3) of the act on the same returned income.

Penalty not leviable if quantum appeal allowed by Tribunal

August 6, 2021 6978 Views 0 comment Print

Cushman & Wakefield Property Management Services India Pvt. Ltd.,Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) We have heard both the parties and perused the relevant material available on record. It is pertinent to note that the quantum appeal has been allowed by the Tribunal. Thus, the addition, on which penalty has been imposed by the Revenue does not […]

Section 271(1)(c) penalty not leviable when AO levied penalty under both charges

August 6, 2021 96585 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs Shri Udaykumar D. Bhatt (ITAT Ahmedabad) Section 271(1)(c) cast responsibility upon the AO to reach the clear finding with respect to levy of penalty under the specific charge and if the AO fails to do so then the penalty cannot be levied as such penalty order shall not be maintainable in the eyes […]

No penalty leviable unless the conduct of the assessee is found to be contumacious

July 20, 2021 3036 Views 0 comment Print

Aanya Real Estate Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Mumbai) In M/s. Aanya Real Estate Pvt. Ltd. v. Deputy CIT [IT A No. 115/Mum/2020 decided on July 20, 2021] M/s. Aanya Real Estate Pvt. Ltd. (“the Appellant”) is a real estate company. During assessment, it was noted that the Petitioner had disclosed payment for Exchange Server […]

Addition on estimation by AO do not call for initiation of penalty

June 10, 2021 3603 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Remi Electrotechnik Ltd. (ITAT Mumbai) Assessing Officer levied penalty under section 271(1)(c) of the Act on estimate basis without any evidence on record with regard to concealment of income. Penalty under section 271(1)(c) of the Act is leviable to be imposed only where the assessee has concealed its particulars of income or furnished […]

No Penalty for Addition for Bogus Purchases on estimated basis

June 10, 2021 9144 Views 0 comment Print

DCIT Vs Toshvin Analytical Private Limited (ITAT Mumbai) As per facts recorded above, the penalty in this case is only with reference to addition on bogus purchases amounting to Rs.3,83,388/-. The addition was sustained by the ITAT @8% of the bogus purchases. We find that on the facts and circumstances of the case, the Ld. […]

No penalty could be levied u/s 271(1)(c) without specifying the limb of provision

May 27, 2021 11610 Views 0 comment Print

Notice issued by AO was bad in law since it did not specify under which limb of section 271(1)(c), the penalty proceedings had been initiated i.e. whether for concealment of income or for furnishing of inaccurate particular of income and merely because AO had treated the business loss claimed by assessee as speculation loss, the same could not tantamount to concealment of income warranting levy of penalty u/s 271(1)(c).

Penalty order gets vitiated if AO not strikes irrelevant limbs in section 274 notice

May 17, 2021 2250 Views 0 comment Print

Vijay Mohan Harde Vs ACIT (ITAT Pune) A copy of the notice issued u/s 274 of the Act has been placed in the appeal folder, from which it is discernible that the AO did not strike off either of the two limbs viz., concealed the particulars of income or furnished inaccurate particulars of such income, […]

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