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2012 (9) TMI 232 - ITAT, DELHIPenalty u/s 271(1)(c) – business income or capital gain - AO treat the gain as short term capital gain and initiated penalty proceeding u/s 271(1((c) - Assessee accepted the decision of the AO and went with the tax authorities by not contesting the issue and by paying the tax as required by the AO – Held that:- merely making a wrong claim in the return of income cannot a ground for imposing penalty u/s 271(1)(c) of the Act as it neither amounts to furnishing inaccurate particulars nor amounts to concealment of income. - Where there is no finding that any details supplied by the assessee in its return are found to be incorrect or erroneous or false there is no question of inviting the penalty under section 271(1)(c). - decision in Reliance Petro Products (P) Ltd. (2010 (3) TMI 80 - SUPREME COURT) followed. - In favor of assessee.
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