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2023 (1) TMI 573 - AT - Income TaxLevy of penalty u/s. 271B - Non compliance requirement in respect of special audit u/s. 142(2A) - AO noted during the course of search, various incriminating documents/information were seized / impounded - HELD THAT:- The issue in these present appeals before us was elaborately dealt in another set of appeals in the case of Ashesh Agrawal [2022 (12) TMI 1223 - ITAT LUCKNOW] though in respect of penalty imposed u/s. 271(1)(b) of the Act. The reasonable cause as stated u/s. 273B considered in those stated appeals relating to penalty imposed u/s. 271(1)(b) exists and applies in the present set of appeals also. As this case of Ashesh Agrawal was also part of the same group of Rich Udyog Net Worth Ltd., the observations and findings given by us in the case of Ashesh Agrawal (supra) applies mutatis mutandis in the present set of appeals before us wherein held relevant ledgers for all the years under consideration were impounded by the Ld. AO in the course of assessment itself which has prevented the assessee in making compliance to the requirements of the special auditors for getting the special audit u/s. 142A of the Act completed. Law does not compel one to do that which one cannot possibly perform. Where the law creates a duty or charge and the party is disabled to perform it, without any default in him and has no remedy over it, there the law will, in general, excuse him. Therefore, when it appears that the performance of the formalities prescribed by a statute has been rendered impossible by circumstances over which the person interested had no control, the circumstances will be taken as a valid excuse. Assessment proceedings furnished by the Ld. Counsel, it is evidently demonstrated that there exists a reasonable cause within the meaning of section 273B of the Act which prevented the assessee in meeting the compliance requirement in respect of special audit u/s. 142(2A) of the Act. - Levy of penalty directed to be deleted.
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