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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


Penalty u/s 271(1)(c) leviable as incomes not offered to tax with intention to evade tax

January 9, 2023 6720 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai held that penalty under section 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act is leviable as incomes were not offered to taxation with a dishonest intention to conceal the income and evade tax.

Imposition of penalty u/s 271(1)(c) on highly debatable issue is unsustainable

January 8, 2023 2295 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Chennai held that levy of penalty u/s. 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act alleging furnishing of inaccurate particulars of income unsustainable as the matter is highly debatable.

No penalty on addition based on estimated rate of profit applied on turnover

January 3, 2023 1863 Views 0 comment Print

ITO Vs Pritesh Mafatlal Shah (ITAT Mumbai) Hon’ble Delhi High Court in the case of CIT Aero Traders Pvt. Ltd., [322 ITR 316] wherein the Hon’ble High Court affirmed the order of the Tribunal in holding that estimated rate of profit applied on the turnover of the assessee does not amount to concealment or furnishing […]

Penalty u/s 271(1)(c) not leviable as tax assessed is equal to TDS deducted

January 2, 2023 3600 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Chandigarh held that as tax finally assessed would be equal to the tax deducted at source and hence there is no basis for levy of penalty u/s 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act.

No penalty merely for making a wrong claim due to wrong interpretation of section 54EC

January 1, 2023 942 Views 0 comment Print

P.S. Jayaraman Vs ACIT (ITAT Chennai) Ld. CIT(A) concurred with assessee’s submissions that deduction u/s 54F was solely due to difference in interpretations of the provisions and therefore, the penalty was not to be levied on this count. However, the provisions of Sec. 54EC were clear that the investment in a financial year was not […]

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

December 24, 2022 4485 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai held that estimated rate of profit applied on the alleged non-genuine purchases doesnt amount to concealment of income or furnishing inaccurate particulars. Accordingly, penalty u/s 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act unsustainable.

Section 35(1)(ii) deduction cannot be denied for subsequent retrospective cancellation of approval 

November 23, 2022 2439 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee was entitled to relief on the certificate granted by the prescribed authority u/s 35(1)(ii) of the Act to the institution to which it donated the sum of money for claiming deduction under that section if it was subsisting and valid at the time the donation was made.

Section 271(1)(c) Penalty not imposable if no addition to income

November 22, 2022 2223 Views 0 comment Print

Since additions have been deleted, the very foundation to visit assessee with penalty does not survive. Hence, no penalty is imposable upon assessee

Penalty notice become defective if it does not disclose specific charge

November 21, 2022 1482 Views 0 comment Print

ACIT Vs Amit Tiwari (ITAT Indore) The submissions of the assessee are that penalty proceedings u/s 271AAB as initiated is bad in law on account of firstly penalty notice so issued is defective as it does not disclose specific charge and secondly there is no concealed income as search took place prior to due date […]

No concealment penalty if expense claimed twice reversed in subsequent year

November 21, 2022 891 Views 0 comment Print

It is not in dispute that the assessee accounted for provision of interest twice by mistake and on realising such mistake, necessary rectification entries were passed in the subsequent year and the same was offered as income.

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