Levy of penalty u/s.271(1)(c) - What is clear is that the ...
Case Laws Income Tax
February 4, 2022
Levy of penalty u/s.271(1)(c) - What is clear is that the assessee has disclosed necessary facts in relation to various expenses including expenditure relatable to exempt income for the year and thus, we are of the considered view that mere disallowance of expenditure u/s.14A by invoking Rule 8D of I.T. Rules, 1962 is not a ground to hold that the assessee has furnished inaccurate particulars of income. When the assessee makes a claim of any expenditure, it is for the authorities to accept the claim in the return of income or not, but merely because the assessee had claimed expenditure which was not accepted or was not acceptable to the Revenue, that by itself would not attract penalty u/s.271(1)(c). - AT
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