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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 414 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 529092 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 1083 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 3000 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 4689 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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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 90 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 75 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 63 Views 0 comment Print

Commission Disallowance Remanded – 133(6) Non-Response Not Sufficient; Ad-hoc Expenses Cut to 10%

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai remanded ₹95.81 lakh commission disallowance, holding that non-response to Section 133(6) notices alone cannot justi...

April 18, 2026 51 Views 0 comment Print

CIT(A) Cannot Enhance on New Issue; JDA Additions & U/s 2(22)(e) Deletions Upheld

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held that CIT(A) cannot enhance income by introducing a new issue not examined by the Assessing Officer. The ruling cl...

April 18, 2026 192 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 11967 Views 0 comment Print


No section 271(1)(c) penalty for income offered for taxation by filing revised return

September 16, 2022 1275 Views 0 comment Print

No Penalty u/s. 271(1)(c) for filing inaccurate particulars of income when assessee filed Revised Return offering to tax rental income

Section 271(1)(c) Penalty proceedings initiated against Assessee cannot continue against Legal Heir

September 8, 2022 2652 Views 0 comment Print

Impugned Section 271(1)(c) Penalty proceedings imposed by AO is not maintainable against assessee’s legal heir under section 159 of Act

Penalty u/s 271(1)(c) not leviable on committing bona fide mistake

August 26, 2022 2976 Views 0 comment Print

Held that the mistake in not adding back the loss on sale of fixed assets in computation of income was a bona fide mistake inadvertently. Accordingly, penalty u/s 271(1)(c) not imposed.

Penalty proceedings without specification of reason is bad in law

August 20, 2022 1767 Views 0 comment Print

Held that notice issued u/s. 274 r.w.s. 271(1)(c) needs to specify the limb under which penalty proceedings are initiated. Penalty not leviable, in absence of the specification of the limb.

Section 271(1)(c) penalty cannot be imposed instead of Section 271AAA

August 20, 2022 1173 Views 0 comment Print

Section 271AAA seeks to impose penalty where undisclosed income is detected during the course of search initiated under Section 132 of the Act on or after 01.06.2007 which condition has been fulfilled

Mere Non-response from creditors cannot be treated as furnishing of inaccurate particulars of income

August 13, 2022 807 Views 0 comment Print

Royal Rubber Works Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) Undisputedly, the addition based on which the Assessing Officer imposed penalty under section 271(1)(c) of the Act was on account of sundry creditors. While deciding the quantum appeal of the assessee, the Tribunal has deleted the major part of the addition, accepting assessee’s submission that such amount was […]

Ambiguity in penalty notice & findings make order levying penalty void ab initio

August 1, 2022 984 Views 0 comment Print

Triune Energy Pvt Ltd Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) In regard to second charge for which penalty is levied for interest on TDS it can be observed that the ld AO in his assessment order had not mentioned a word regarding his satisfaction for proceeding with penalty proceedings u/s 271(1)(c) of the Act while passing the […]

No section 271(1)(c) penalty if notice fails to specify Concealment or Furnishing of Inaccurate Particulars of Income

July 26, 2022 7284 Views 0 comment Print

Kalra Papers Pvt. Ltd. Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) The penalty provisions of section 271(1)(c) of the Act are attracted, where the Assessee has concealed the particulars of income or furnished inaccurate particulars of such income. It is also a well-accepted proposition that the aforesaid two limbs of section 271(1)(c) of the Act carry different meanings. […]

Section 271(1)(c) penalty not leviable if Penalty Notice is defective

July 26, 2022 957 Views 0 comment Print

It is held that the Penalty Notice is defective, therefore, the penalty levied under section 271(1)(c) of the Act, is not maintainable.

Fictitious cash sales to claim exemption under Section 80-IC not become genuine merely for acceptance by VAT Authorities

July 24, 2022 705 Views 0 comment Print

Respondent furnished inaccurate particulars of his income in the garb of fictitious cash sales with a view to claim Section 81-IC exemption

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