Other penalties - CBEC's Customs Manual 2023 - Customs

8. Other penalties: 8.1 If a person knowingly or intentionally makes, signs or uses, or causes to be made, signed or used, any declaration, statement or document which is false or incorrect in any material particular, in the transaction of any business for the purposes of the Customs Act, 1962, then in terms of Section 114AA of the said act, such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five times the value of goods. 8.2 In terms of Section 116 of the Customs Act, 1962 if any goods loaded in a conveyance for importation into India, or any goods transshipped under the provisions of the said Act or coastal goods carried in a conveyance, are not unloaded at their place of destination in India, or if the quantity unloaded is short of the quantity to be unloaded at that destination, and, if the failure to unload or the deficiency is not accounted for to the satisfaction of the Assistant/Deputy Commissioner of Customs, the person incharge of the conveyance shall be liable: (i) In the case of goods loaded in a conveyance for importation into India or goods transhipped under the provisions of the Customs Act, 1962 to a penalty not exceeding twice the amount of duty that would have been chargeable on the goods not unloaded or the deficient goods, as the case may be, had such goods been imported; (ii) In the case of coastal goods, to a penalty not exceeding twice the amount of export duty that would have been chargeable on the goods not unloaded or the deficient goods, as the case may be, had such goods been exported. 8.3 Any person who contravenes any provision of the Customs Act, 1962 or abets any such contravention or who fails to comply with any provision of this Act, with which it was his duty to comply, where no express penalty is elsewhere provided for such contravention or failure, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Rs.1 lakh.