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Section 271AAB

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Budget 2025: Non-Applicability of Section 271AAB from 1st Sept 2024

Income Tax : Section 271AAB penalties will not apply to searches initiated under Section 132 after September 1, 2024, as per the Finance Bill, ...

February 2, 2025 1719 Views 0 comment Print

Section 271AAB Penalty Not Applicable for Searches on or after 01.09.2024

Income Tax : Penalty under Section 271AAB of the Income-tax Act is not applicable for searches after 1st September 2024, replaced by Section 15...

February 2, 2025 573 Views 0 comment Print

Penalties and Prosecutions Under Income tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : Discover penalties and prosecutions under the Income Tax Act, 1961, including default conditions, quantum of penalties, and potent...

September 6, 2024 513858 Views 4 comments Print

Updated Penalty Chart under Income Tax Act, 1961

Income Tax : A detailed guide on updated penalties under the Income Tax Act, 1961 for AY 2025-26. Learn about fines for non-compliance, under-r...

September 6, 2024 159449 Views 6 comments Print

Section 115BBE needs Relook: Know Misuse, Consequences & Judicial Precedents

Income Tax : Explore the implications of taxation under section 115BBE, including misuse of sections 68 to 69D, consequences of high tax rates,...

August 12, 2023 31491 Views 0 comment Print


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Section 271AAB – Relax restrictions to claim benefit of concessional rate of penalty @ 10%: ICAI

Income Tax : Section 271AAB provides for imposition of penalty at specified rates where search has been initiated. The rate of penalty varies...

January 27, 2018 2211 Views 0 comment Print

Section 271AAB Prosecution should not be initiated for Income disclosed during survey: ICAI

Income Tax : Section 271AAB provides for imposition of penalty @ 10% on undisclosed income found during the course of search and admitted at t...

January 27, 2018 1266 Views 0 comment Print

Section 153A / 271AAB– Need for effective deterrence and finality in Search Cases

Income Tax : Present scheme of administration of Search and Assessment of search cases needs to be made effective to reduce technical complexit...

January 18, 2018 1101 Views 0 comment Print


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No separate addition warranted as already covered in declaration of income: ITAT Nagpur

Income Tax : ITAT Nagpur held that addition towards unexplained expenditure u/s. 69C of the Income Tax Act not warranted since the same are alr...

April 15, 2025 231 Views 0 comment Print

Addition towards undisclosed income sustained as incriminating material found during search not explained

Income Tax : ITAT Jaipur held that addition towards undisclosed income rightly sustained since assessee failed to explain the incriminating mat...

April 5, 2025 144 Views 0 comment Print

No Penalty for Additions Based on Estimation Without Concrete Proof: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai ruled on Dev Engineers Vs DCIT, deleting penalties under Sections 271(1)(c) and 271AAB. Additions were based on estima...

February 26, 2025 867 Views 0 comment Print

Section 275(1A) empowers AO to enhance or reduce penalty based on order passed by higher authority

Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that section 275(1A) of the Income Tax Act empowers AO to pass penalty order by enhancing or reducing penalty ...

December 28, 2024 999 Views 0 comment Print

Penalty u/s. 271(1)(c)/ 271AAB imposable even on voluntary disclosure of income: ITAT Pune

Income Tax : ITAT Pune held that penalty under section 271(1)(c)/ 271AAB of the Income Tax Act imposable even in case of voluntary disclosure o...

December 16, 2024 675 Views 0 comment Print


No Section 271AAB Penalty if Initiation not based on Undisclosed Income Found during search

August 4, 2023 1629 Views 0 comment Print

An examination of section 271AAB penalty when no undisclosed income is found during search actions. Discover how ITAT Nagpur ruled on this critical tax law issue.

ITAT Abolishes Section 271AAB Penalty for Lack of Deliberate Defiance of Law

August 1, 2023 966 Views 0 comment Print

Analysis of the recent ITAT ruling on Pawan Satyanarain Jalan Vs Assessing Officer Central where the penalty under Section 271AAB of the Income Tax Act was deleted.

Penalty u/s 271AAB not leviable on income surrendered during search

July 17, 2023 2310 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Jaipur held that income surrendered during the course of search cannot be said to qualify as an undisclosed income in the context of section 271AAB read with the explanation thereto and hence penalty u/s 271AAB of Income Tax Act not leviable.

Show cause notice not specifying charge against assessee is bad-in-law

July 12, 2023 3018 Views 0 comment Print

Calcutta High Court held that show cause notice not specifying the charge against the assessee is bad-in-law. Accordingly, initiation of the penalty proceedings is vitiated.

Addition u/s 68 towards unexplained cash credit unsustainable as cash sales already reflected in P&L

June 26, 2023 5502 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Mumbai held that addition under section 68 of the Income Tax Act towards unexplained cash credit unsustainable as cash proceeds already reflected in Profit & Loss account, hence addition u/s 68 will amount to double taxation.

Penalty u/s 271AAB not imposable in absence of conduct of search

June 14, 2023 924 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Kolkata held that in case where search has not been conducted upon the assessee, then penalty under section 271AAB of the Income Tax Act cannot be imposed.

Approval accorded u/s. 153D without application of mind is unenforceable in law

May 25, 2023 1668 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Delhi held that hollow and cosmetic approval accorded under section 153D of the Income Tax Act without application of mind is unenforceable in law and hence liable to be quashed.

Once penalty u/s 271AAB applied in search addition, invoking provision of section 115BBE unjustified

March 10, 2023 2370 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Jaipur held that once penal provisions under section 271AAB of the Income Tax Act are applied in case of search addition, invoking provision of section 115BBE is not in accordance with law and accordingly unsustainable.

When search is initiated, penalty is leviable u/s 271AAB and not under 271(1)(c)

March 3, 2023 1656 Views 0 comment Print

Jharkhand High Court held that when search is initiated, penalty is leviable under section 271AAB of the Income Tax Act. Accordingly, initiation of penalty proceedings u/s 271(1)(c) post initiation of search is unsustainable.

Penalty u/s 271AAB not imposable in absence of specific charge

January 9, 2023 1038 Views 0 comment Print

ITAT Kolkata held the levy of penalty under section 271AAB of the Income Tax Act without specifying the charge on which the same is imposable is unsustainable in law.

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