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2018 (3) TMI 1173 - AT - Income TaxPenalty u/s.271FA - delay filing on AIR - Held that:- Appellant is a Govt. servant and AR stated that they have assigned job to submit AIR to some outsources agency and sometime staff of the outsources agency become careless. In these case, appellant is a newly incumbent with the office and was not aware of the income tax provisions. Moreover, department authority did not inform in above said responsibilities of during the same. Moreover, income tax was paid on time therefore, no loss to the revenue. In our considered opinion, appellant was having reasonable cause for delay filing on AIR and in our opinion benefit of section 273B should be given to the appellant. Therefore, we delete the penalty in all above said three appeals. - Decided in favour of assessee
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