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Penalties and Prosecutions Under Income tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : This guide explains the penalty and prosecution framework under the Income-tax Act for AY 2026-27. It highlights the consequences ...

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FAQs on Maintenance of books of accounts under Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : This guide explains who is required to maintain books of account under Section 44AA based on business, profession, turnover, and i...

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FAQs on Penalty provisions under Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : This guide explains when penalties can be imposed under various provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961. It also outlines the appli...

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Prosecutions and Punishment under Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : The article explains how offences such as wilful tax evasion, failure to file returns, non-payment of TDS/TCS, falsification of re...

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Income Tax Offences liable to prosecution

Income Tax : This article outlines major offences under the Income-tax Act that may result in prosecution, including tax evasion, non-payment o...

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Budget 2024: Time-limit for filing appeals to Income Tax Appellate Tribunal

Income Tax : Explore amendments to section 253 of Income-tax Act, adjusting time limits for filing appeals to the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal...

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Books of Accounts Cannot Be Rejected for Suspicion or Low Profit Rate: ITAT Ahmedabad

Income Tax : ITAT ruled that personal savings account credits require proof of business nexus before being treated as turnover. The income addi...

July 3, 2026 147 Views 0 comment Print

Post search abatement of pending assessments under 158BA(2) is not automatic

Income Tax : Orissa High Court held that post search operation all pending assessments/reassessments doesn’t not automatically get abated as ...

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ITAT Bangalore Deletes Section 271D Penalty on Cash Sale Receipt

Income Tax : The ITAT Bangalore held that cash received as part of sale consideration for immovable property does not automatically attract pen...

February 20, 2026 3357 Views 0 comment Print

Section 271A Penalty Sustained Despite VSV Settlement; Non-Maintenance of Books Proved

Income Tax : The dispute centered on a statutory obligation to maintain books of account. The tribunal confirmed that non-compliance attracts p...

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No Double Penalty for Same Default Under Sections 271A and 271B: ITAT Chennai

Income Tax : The tribunal held that once penalty is imposed for non-maintenance of books, a second penalty for non-audit cannot be levied. Levy...

January 27, 2026 840 Views 0 comment Print


Section 271A Penalty imposed on Doctor For Non-Maintenance of Books

March 23, 2022 10119 Views 0 comment Print

Yogesh Parashram Pangarkar Vs ITO (ITAT Pune) As per Income Tax Rule 6F the appellant i.e. Doctor has to maintain the books of accounts mentioned in the Rule 6F. The ld.AR submitted that the appellant is maintaining cash book and petty cash book. Even before the ld.CIT(A) the appellant had submitted that the appellant maintained […]

No Penalty for failure to maintain books when Assessee submitted Audit Report & Audited Accounts

November 1, 2021 3531 Views 0 comment Print

In our considered opinion, Audit Report and Audited Statement of Accounts are the outcome of books of account maintained by an assessee. If these documents are available, then it can be safely presumed that the assessee must have maintained proper books of account, which would enable the auditors to furnish audit report.

Football & Income Tax- Penalty, in both, is Hefty

October 14, 2020 9133 Views 0 comment Print

Arjuna, while playing on the Football Ground if, a player pushes other players or creates any obstruction then the referee whistles and show a Yellow Card. Yellow Card represents a mild penalty. If you look at Income Tax, the taxpayers are intimated by a prior notice and thereafter a penalty is levied

Section 271(1)(c) Penalty Justified if Assessee not Acted Bonafidely

September 27, 2020 4302 Views 0 comment Print

Gangotri Textiles Ltd. Vs. DCIT (Madras High Court) The issue under consideration is whether the penalty u/s 271(1)(c) levied by the assessing officer is justified in law? In the present case, the assessee did not disclose about the sale of the lands and windmill in the return of income, which was clear from the perusal […]

No penalty for not maintaining books – Calculation of Turnover from Derivative Transaction – Debatable issue – Reasonable cause

September 7, 2020 2469 Views 0 comment Print

Vijay Kumar Jain Vs ITO (ITAT Jaipur) At the outset, we note that this Tribunal has taken a consistent view that the turnover in respect of derivative transactions has to be computed by taking the total sum of positive and negative outcome of the transactions instead of the total amount of transaction. Accordingly, when the […]

Section 271A Penalty for failure to keep / maintain or retain books of accounts, documents

January 27, 2020 54300 Views 1 comment Print

Understand the consequences of failing to maintain books of accounts and documents as required by section 271A of the Income Tax Act.

Income U/s. 271AAA justified if Asssessee fails to specify as to how she derived undisclosed income

June 18, 2018 1251 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee clearly failed to specify as to how she derived undisclosed income and under what head it fell in (rent, capital gains, professional or business income out of money lending source of the income, etc. Unless such facts were mentioned with some specificity, it could not be said that conditions in section 271AAA(2) were satisfied by the assessee.

No Penalty U/s. 271B if assessee maintained books of account

June 1, 2018 4839 Views 0 comment Print

Whether penalty under section 271B of the Act could be levied in a case where the books of account were maintained by the assessee. The Hon’ble jurisdictional High Court in that case held that where no account has been maintained, section 271B does not get attracted and instead recourse under section 271A can be taken.

No penalty u/s 271A when assessee unable to produce books of Accounts due to circumstances beyond control

May 15, 2018 8262 Views 0 comment Print

Ashok Kumar Dutta Vs DCIT (ITAT Kolkata) Notice u/s 274 read with section 271A of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The word maintained and retained has been used in section 271A of the Act .If assesseee fails to maintain or  fails to retain such books of accounts and other documents . The Income tax authority […]

If No Books of Account then no question of audit & no penalty for not getting tax audit done

April 20, 2013 5808 Views 0 comment Print

In yet another case of Shri Ramchandra D Keluskar in ITA No.668/PN/10, the Pune Bench of this Tribunal found that when there are no books of account, the question of its audit does not arise. Therefore, this Tribunal is of the considered opinion that when the books of account was not maintained and the penalty levied u/s 271A was deleted, this Tribunal is of the considered opinion that there is no justification for levying penalty u/s 271B of the Act for not getting the books of account audited.

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