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Since assessee had deducted the TDS, but not remitted to Government account and for that he had not given any satisfactory explanation either before AO or before CIT(A), therefore, penalty under section 271C was justified.
According to Section 234E of Income Tax Act, a fee for late / non filing of the TDS Return is leviable at the rate of Rs. 200 per day for the period of failure (Not more than the amount of TDS).
Where assessee duly deducted tax at source under section 194C at the end of the year and remitted the same to Government account, the penalty imposed under section 271C for assessee’s failure to deduct tax at source and remittance to Government account, would not be sustainable.
Since assessee had a reasonable cause for non-deduction of TDS, penalty u/s 271C not leviable in terms of section 273B.
In Recent past we noticed that department has taken late payment of TDS very seriously and in addition to imposing Interest and Penalty for Late Payment, they also start initiating Criminal Prosecution against those responsible for Deduction and Payment of TDS.
ACIT Vs Chaitanya Educational Trust (ITAT Hyderabad) Since the assessee has filed the certificates of the recipients with proof that the recipients have offered the income to tax in their hands, the assessee shall not be treated as an assessee in default u/s 201(1) of the Act. FULL TEXT OF THE ITAT JUDGMENT All are […]
Assessee cannot be considered as having done willful neglect for non-compliance of the TDS provisions. This is just a technical mistake and, accordingly, the assessee cannot be held to be an assessee in default and no penalty can be imposed.
Section 273B of the Act provides that in case of a reasonable cause, penalty otherwise exigible, inter alia, u/s 271C of the Act, cannot be imposed.
While allowing the appeal filed by the assessee Kolkata bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) recently declared that penalty under Section 271C of the Income Tax Act would not attract when there is a short deduction of tax due to bonafied confusion.
The contract of guarantee does not give any rise to principal – agent relationship between the assessee and the bank and, therefore, the consideration received by the bank on account of guarantee commission cannot be reckoned as commission as contemplated under section 194H and accordingly, there was no requirement to deduct TDS on this payment.
