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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 4692 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 195 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


Section 271(1)(c) penalty quantification dependent upon additions to income

June 22, 2022 504 Views 0 comment Print

Bharat Rana Chaudhry Vs ITO (ITAT Delhi) ITAT find that sub-clause (iii) of section 271(l)(c) provides mechanism for quantification of penalty. It contemplates that the assessee would be directed to pay a sum in addition to taxes, if any, payable him, which shall not be less than but which shall not exceed three times the […]

Not striking off irrelevant matter vitiate penalty proceedings

June 22, 2022 546 Views 0 comment Print

Sh. Prem Pal Gandhi Vs ACIT (ITAT Amritsar) The appellant objected to the levy of penalty as bad in law. He challenged that the AO has not mentioned under which limbs of section 27 1(1)(c) of the Act, whether for concealment of income or furnishing of inaccurate particulars, the penalty was initiated. Thus, He has […]

ITAT upheld penalty on amount accumulated by Trust but not utilised & disclosed in ITR

June 22, 2022 405 Views 0 comment Print

Association of Indian Forging Industry Vs ITO (ITAT Pune) Association of Indian Forging Industry (hereinafter referred to as appellant) is a not-for-profit company incorporated u/s 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 and is also registered u/s 12A of the I.T. Act 1961, therefore eligible for exemption u/s 11 of the Act. As per the memorandum […]

Penalty not imposable merely for making of a claim, which is not sustainable in law

June 21, 2022 657 Views 0 comment Print

Mere making of a claim, which is not sustainable in law, would not, ipso facto, amount to concealment of income or furnishing of inaccurate particulars of Income

Penalty Proceedings invalid if initiated on the basis of Defective Notice

June 21, 2022 1740 Views 0 comment Print

If very initiation of penalty proceedings on a defective notice is invalid and it do not warrant imposition of penalty u/s.271(1)(c) of the Act on the assessee.

No Section 271(1)(c) penalty on debatable issue with conflicting views

June 20, 2022 3192 Views 0 comment Print

Ajaybhai I Gogia Vs ITO (ITAT Rajkot) From the fact of the case ITAT observed that there are conflicting judicial precedents on the issue under consideration and therefore, it may be inferred that the issue before us is one in which two views are possible. Further, we note that the Hon’ble Gujarat High Court has […]

No section 271(1)(c) penalty for additions upheld on estimation basis

June 20, 2022 921 Views 0 comment Print

Jagubhai Chhaganbhai Patel Vs I.T.O (ITAT Surat) In this cases in quantum appeals assessee was granted substantial relief in deleting major part of additions and only part of capital gains only on account of cost of improvement on pucca structure was partly upheld on estimation basis. Therefore, all substantial additions were either deleted or upheld […]

Defect in Section 274 Notice vitiates the Assumption of Jurisdiction by AO

June 18, 2022 1020 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT held that for the AO to assume jurisdiction u/s 271(l)(c), proper notice is necessary and the defect in notice u/s 274 of the Act vitiates the assumption of jurisdiction by the learned Assessing Officer to levy any penalty.

Section 274 notice not specifying the grounds for penalty is invalid

June 18, 2022 4536 Views 0 comment Print

Neelkanth Town Planners Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) We find that the Assessing Officer has issued the penalty notice stating that, subsequently penalty notice u/s 271(1)(c) was issued on 20.03.2017, fixing the case for hearing on 24.03.2017. The assessee was asked to why penalty u/s 271(1)(c) should not be imposed upon you for concealment […]

Sec. 271(1)(c) Penalty imposed cannot survive if assessment order quashed

June 17, 2022 2844 Views 0 comment Print

Heritage Infracon Pvt. Ltd. Vs DCIT (ITAT Delhi) At the outset learned counsel for the assessee submitted that in quantum proceedings the Tribunal vide its order dated 4.12.2019 was pleased to delete the addition made by the Assessing Officer. Revenue has not disputed the fact that the assessment has been quashed by the Tribunal in […]

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