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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 423 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 529272 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 1092 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 3036 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 4764 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 1123 Views 0 comment Print


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Income Tax Appeal Reinstated as Delay due to Bona Fide Belief & COVID-19 Disruption

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that lack of awareness of the assessment order and limited knowledge of tax law constituted sufficient cause for...

April 21, 2026 135 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Deletes Penalty as Both Limbs of Section 271(1)(c) Invoked Together

Income Tax : The Tribunal held that a penalty notice lacking clarity on whether it relates to concealment or inaccurate particulars is invalid....

April 21, 2026 291 Views 0 comment Print

Penalty Deleted as AO Failed to Specify Exact Section 271(1)(c) Charge: Delhi HC

Income Tax : The case addressed ambiguity in penalty proceedings where the specific charge was not identified. The Court upheld deletion of pen...

April 18, 2026 141 Views 0 comment Print

Penalty Quashed as Notice Failed to Specify Exact Section 271(1)(c) Charge: ITAT Raipur

Income Tax : The case involved an ambiguous penalty notice that did not clarify whether the charge was concealment or inaccurate particulars. T...

April 18, 2026 138 Views 0 comment Print

No Penalty on Estimated Bogus Purchases: ITAT Deletes U/s 271(1)(c) Levy

Income Tax : The case involved penalty on disallowance of purchases treated as non-genuine and estimated at 12.5%. Tribunal ruled that estimate...

April 18, 2026 99 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 11970 Views 0 comment Print


Non-striking on irrelevant limb u/s 271(1)(c) vitiates entire penalty proceedings

November 28, 2023 885 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai held that as the assessee should be aware of the exact charge for which the penalty proceeding has been initiated, non-striking on the irrelevant limb under section 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act vitiates the entire penalty proceedings.

Penalty u/s. 271(1)(c) unsustainable in absence of concealment of income or furnishing inaccurate particulars

November 20, 2023 3087 Views 0 comment Print

Gujarat High Court held that initiation of penalty proceedings u/s 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act in the absence of any material to establish the concealing of income or furnishing inaccurate particulars unsustainable-in-law.

Initiation of prosecution proceedings u/s 276CC in absence of any demand is unsustainable-in-law

November 20, 2023 2865 Views 0 comment Print

Jharkhand High Court held that initiation of prosecution proceedings under section 276CC of the Income Tax Act in absence of any demand, as demand adjusted against refund, is bad-in-law and liable to be set aside.

ITAT deletes Penalty on Estimated addition from Sales Tax Department Info

November 13, 2023 693 Views 0 comment Print

Mumbai ITAT deletes penalty under section 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act on estimated quantum addition based on information from Sales Tax Department. Full text order.

Penalty Cannot Be levied for Inaccuracy if notice was for Concealment of Income

November 12, 2023 1257 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Pune case Shivaji Dattatray Sonawane vs ITO. Explore why the penalty for inaccuracy can’t be levied if the notice was for concealment.

No Penalty if no inaccurate Reporting and no Concealment by Assessee

November 12, 2023 1095 Views 0 comment Print

Understand the condonation of delay imposed by the Delhi High Court in the case of CIT Vs. Standard Chartered Grindlays Pty Ltd. Learn about the penalty imposed and the background of the appeal under Section 271(1)(c) of the Income-tax Act, 1961.

ITAT Quashes Section 271(1)(c) Penalty Due to Unspecified Offense Notice

November 12, 2023 726 Views 0 comment Print

The ITAT Delhi cancels a penalty imposed on Mideast Integrated Steels Ltd. due to an unqualified offense notice. Learn about the case and its implications.

Section 271(1)(c) Penalty deleted due to AO’s Failure to Specify Applicable limb

November 9, 2023 1221 Views 0 comment Print

Penalty under section 271(1)(c) was not leviable as there was failure on the part of AO as to which limb of Section 271(1)(c) got attracted for imposition of penalty.

Non-awareness tax liability land sale: ITAT deletes Section 271(1)(c) Penalty

November 5, 2023 8847 Views 0 comment Print

The ITAT in Ahmedabad cancels the penalty under Section 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act in Ushaben Chauhan’s case due to non-awareness of tax liability on land sale.

Property renovation expenses can’t be disallowed for missing details in bill

November 4, 2023 1368 Views 0 comment Print

Property renovation cannot be disallowed merely for the reason that no telephone number, VAT/TIN number has been mentioned in the bill and there is no charges of VAT levied in the bill

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