Levy of penalty u/s 271B - not getting books of account audited ...
Case Laws Income Tax
January 5, 2022
Levy of penalty u/s 271B - not getting books of account audited u/s 44AB - AO has given categorically finding that the assessee had made frequent transaction in both delivery as well as non-delivery based segment of shares and volume and quantity of buying and selling of shares was also found to be substantially high which are sufficient to prove that transactions of share trading carried out by the assessee during the year are in the nature of business. This plea of the assessee that he was ignorant about the provision of getting books of account audited, find no merit as ignorance of law is no excuse and carrying out the transactions of the magnitude in itself leaves no room for the assessee to make an excuse for not getting books of account audited u/s 44AB - AT
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