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Now days a question is coming to the mind of many professional that in case of an entity who has not entered into any of the Specified or reportable financial transactions in Financial Year 2016-17 but who falls into the class of person (reporting person) under Section 285BA Read with Rule 114E of Income Tax Rules, are they required to file NIL statement of financial transactions (SFT) in Form No. 61A.
Note on Reporting of specified financial transaction as prescribed U/s 285BA read with Rule 114E of the IT Act. Rule 114E prescribed the following transactions which is applicable to company- the relevant extract of sr. no. is reproduced for ease of understanding. Sr no. Nature and value of transaction Class of person (Reporting person) (1) […]
Penalty under 271FA was unjustified as there was no requirement to file the AIR in absence of reportable transaction during the financial year and also, department did not make out a case that the assessee had the recorded re portable transactions in the relevant financial year.
Reporting Entity or Reporting Person is an entity which is required to furnish a Statement of Financial Transaction (in Form 61 A) or Statement of Reportable Account (in Form 61B) with the Income tax Department as per the provisions of section 285BA of the Income-tax Act 1961.
Statement of Financial Transaction (SFT) I. Introduction In order to keep a track of the high value transactions undertaken by the taxpayers, a new Form 61A under Sec 285BA was introduced w.e.f 1st April, 2004 vide Notification No. 182/2005, dated 11/07/2005. This section required reporting persons to furnish Annual Information Return (AIR) in respect of […]
Section 271FA of the Act provides that if a person who is required to furnish the statement of financial transaction or reportable account under sub-section (1) of section 285BA, fails to furnish such statement within the prescribed time, he shall be liable to pay penalty of one hundred rupees for every day of default.
Income Tax Department has used information received under Statement of Financial Transactions to identify 5.56 lakh new persons in second phase of Operation Clean Money.
The person required to furnish details in the Form 61A according to the provisions of Rule 114E, the same shall be furnished to the Director of Income Tax (Intelligence and Criminal Investigation) or the Joint director of Income Tax (Intelligence and Criminal Investigation) through online.
In terms of Rule 114G(1)(e)(i) of Income Tax Rules, 1962 issued under Section 285BA of Income Tax Act, 1961 following information is required to be reported by reporting financial institution in the case of reportable custodial account:-
Section 285BA- Requirements, Coverage and Procedure