Income Tax : The Tribunal held that penalty under section 271(1)(c) cannot be imposed when errors are voluntarily corrected during assessment. ...
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...
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...
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...
Income Tax : Learn how taxpayers can defer income tax penalty proceedings when quantum additions are under appeal. Understand legal grounds and...
Income Tax : The Committee recommends that the scope of Section 273B should be suitably enlarged to provide that penalty for concealment of inc...
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...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that unsecured loan additions could not be sustained where the assessee furnished confirmations, bank statemen...
Income Tax : The Bangalore ITAT held that a disallowance under Section 14A read with Rule 8D cannot survive without the Assessing Officer recor...
Income Tax : The Tribunal found no distinguishing factors between the assessee and another liquor trader whose GP rate of 3.13% had been accept...
Income Tax : The assessee argued that payment of advance tax demonstrated absence of concealment. The High Court held that a subsequent conscio...
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...
The Delhi ITAT has ruled that a penalty cannot be imposed when income is based on estimation. It deleted penalties on a taxpayer where cash deposits were assessed as estimated business profits, not unexplained income.
The Calcutta High Court invalidates a penalty under Section 271(1)(c) because the show-cause notice failed to specify whether the charge was for concealing or furnishing inaccurate income particulars.
ITAT Jaipur held that merely the claim of the assessee was not entertained it cannot be a reason automatically to levy the penalty for misreporting or under reporting of the income. Accordingly, levy of penalty under section 270A of the Income Tax Act set aside.
Penalty under section 271(1)(c) was not leviable as deceased alone could have explained the source of the deposits, and since he had died before the initiation of penalty proceedings, it was not reasonable to expect the legal heir to establish his innocence.
Calcutta High Court dismisses PCIT appeal, ruling penalty notice under Income Tax Act invalid due to failure to specify contravention, citing judicial precedents.
ITAT Delhi deleted penalties against Sahara India Commercial, citing a defective “omnibus” notice and a time-barred, invalid reassessment based on “borrowed satisfaction.”
ITAT Jaipur held that disallowance of professional fees merely for the reason that notice under section 133(6) of the Income Tax Act remained unserved is not justifiable since assessee has placed various evidences on record. Accordingly, appeal is allowed.
ITAT Ahmedabad held that mere filing of return in response to notice u/s. 148 does not ipso facto justify the invocation of section 270A(2)(b), unless there is a demonstrable act of under-reporting in substance. Thus, penalty deleted as failure to furnish return u/s. 139(1) doesn’t constitute under-reporting.
ITAT Raipur held that addition made on account of unexplained out of books cash transaction merely on the basis of certain information without cogent evidence or plausible reasoning has not substance to survive in eye of law. Accordingly, addition deleted.
ITAT Bangalore confirms penalty deletion under Section 271(1)(c) against Manipal Hospitals, ruling that a mere disallowance of a claim, like interest expenditure reclassification, does not constitute furnishing inaccurate particulars of income.
