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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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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 39 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

Liquor Trader Gets Relief as ITAT Reduces GP Rate to 3.13% & Deletes Separate Expense Disallowance

Income Tax : The Tribunal found no distinguishing factors between the assessee and another liquor trader whose GP rate of 3.13% had been accept...

June 1, 2026 300 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


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

November 12, 2023 756 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 1257 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 8919 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 1449 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

ITAT Directs Submission of Sales Tax Challan for Payment Proof

November 4, 2023 1107 Views 5 comments Print

Read about the ITAT Delhi’s direction to submit sales tax documents within 6 months. Analysis of the case between Jay Polychem India Ltd and ACIT.

Assessee Not Liable for Co-Owners’ On-Money payments: ITAT Ahmedabad

November 2, 2023 1194 Views 0 comment Print

In the case of Manish Ramanbhai Patel Vs ITO, ITAT Ahmedabad allows the appeal, emphasizing that the addition cannot be made in the hands of the assessee for on-money paid by co-owners.

Penalty notice u/s 271(1)(c) without specifying exact limb is bad-in-law

November 1, 2023 2844 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi held that notice issued initiating the penalty proceeding without specifying the limb of section 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act is bad-in-law and liable to be quashed.

Penalty u/s 271(1)(c) not leviable in absence of concealment of particulars of income

October 30, 2023 2607 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi held that penalty under section 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act not leviable since there is no concealment of particulars of income by the assessee.

Section 271(1)(c) Penalty not leviable if explanation with documentary evidence not found to be false

October 28, 2023 6342 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Kolkata held that as assessee has provided the explanation with documentary evidence and such documents have not been held as false either by AO during assessment proceedings or during penalty proceedings. Hence, penalty u/s. 271(1)(c) not leviable.

Exclusion of period taken for handing over seized material to AO effective only from 01.04.2021

October 25, 2023 1728 Views 0 comment Print

Madras High Court held that clause (xi) to Explanation to Section 153B of the Income Tax Act relating to the exclusion of the period taken for handing over seized material to the assessing officer is effective prospectively from 01.04.2021. Accordingly, prior assessment years are held to be barred by limitation.

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