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...
Income Tax : Comprehensive summary of income tax penalties under the Income Tax Act for AY 2026-27. Covers defaults in tax payment, filing, rep...
Income Tax : Section 271AAB penalties will not apply to searches initiated under Section 132 after September 1, 2024, as per the Finance Bill, ...
Income Tax : Penalty under Section 271AAB of the Income-tax Act is not applicable for searches after 1st September 2024, replaced by Section 15...
Income Tax : Explore the implications of taxation under section 115BBE, including misuse of sections 68 to 69D, consequences of high tax rates,...
Income Tax : Section 271AAB provides for imposition of penalty at specified rates where search has been initiated. The rate of penalty varies...
Income Tax : Section 271AAB provides for imposition of penalty @ 10% on undisclosed income found during the course of search and admitted at t...
Income Tax : Present scheme of administration of Search and Assessment of search cases needs to be made effective to reduce technical complexit...
Income Tax : The Bangalore ITAT held that an assessee claiming exemption based on Form 16 issued by the employer acted under a bona fide belief...
Income Tax : The Mumbai ITAT held that the Assessing Officer cannot impose the maximum 90% penalty under Section 271AAB without recording extra...
Income Tax : The court held that transfer pricing adjustments cannot automatically be treated as misreporting of income. Without evidence of de...
Income Tax : Holding that the search team did not examine the source of cash properly, the Tribunal directed bifurcation of penalty—30% on de...
Income Tax : PCIT Vs Sandeep Chandak (Allahabad High Court) These income tax appeals arose from a common order dated 02.01.2017 passed by the I...
Rashmi Jalan Vs ACIT (ITAT Kolkata) Penalty notice issued under section 274 read with section 271AAB is bad in law as the showcause notice issued by the Assessing Officer does not specify the charge/s against the assessee for levy of penalty, as required by law. Thus, on this ground, the penalty is quashed. Even otherwise, […]
ACIT Vs Deccan Jewellers Pvt. Ltd. (ITAT Visakhapatnam) We find from the orders of the lower authorities that the basis for additional income was only estimation but not supported by any evidence. Even the department failed to substantiate the industry average of purification loss with authenticated documentary evidences. The assessee submitted that the additional income […]
Pawan Mundra Vs DCIT (ITAT Jaipur) The issue under consideration whether AO is justified levying penalty under section 271AAB on failure to offer explanation about the source of the undisclosed investment in land? ITAT states that during course of post search proceedings, assessee admitted an income of Rs. 6,00,000 on account of undisclosed investment in […]
The issue under consideration is whether the penalty levied u/s 271AAB of the Act is justified on Income voluntarily admitted during Search by Appellant?
Understand the penalties imposable in income tax search cases. Learn about the different types of penalties and their implications for tax compliance.
Penalty under section 271AAB levied on the basis of defective notice could not be sustained as there was no mention about various conditions provided u/s 271 AAB as it was incumbent upon AO to mention in notice issued under section 274 read with section 271AAB as to under which clause of section 271AAB penalty was leviable and that too, at which rate.
Understand the penalty provisions under Section 271AAB of the Income Tax Act for undisclosed income found during search proceedings.
Where assessee was not required to maintain any books of account and there was no mechanism to report the investment in the tax return, the said investment could not be held as undisclosed investment and more so, undisclosed income so defined in section 271AAB, therefore, investment so found in purchase of Villa could not be termed as undisclosed income within the meaning of “undisclosed income” and penalty levied thereon was liable to be set aside.
Penalty under section 271AAB was justified as the surrender had been made on account of discrepancy /shortage in stock which had not been accounted for by assessee and the same was therefore rightly been held to qualify as “ undisclosed income” as per the definition in section 271AAB.
Understanding the penalties under the Income Tax Act, 1961. Learn about the consequences of non-compliance and the monetary punishments imposed.
