10 Serious Offences Under Income Tax Act with Penalties

10 Serious Offences Under Income Tax Act with Penalties

The taxpayer who has disputed within the provision of the income tax act 1961 shall be subjected to file the penalty. The penalty will be imposed on the levied amount and is distinct from the tax that is needed to pay. The fines and penalty shall be imposed on the taxpayer who performs unwanted deeds and shall be imposed under the law that is liable to apply during the execution of bogus activities. 


Below are the mentioned serious offences under Income tax with penalties under different sections:

Offence Under Income Tax Section 158BFA with Penalty

Offence: For the blocked time, the computation of the income that is not disclosed, while below section 132 any search is executed or in context to any books of account/any other credentials or the kind of asset can be seized beneath section 132A, towards the case of any individual. 

Penalty: For the case of 100% of the tax shall be the min penalty that is to be levied with respect to the unspecified income that is to be increased to the highest of 300% of the tax that is subjected to imposed towards to the unspecified income. 

Offence with Penalty Under Income Tax Section 221(1)

Offence: If the taxpayer builds with any default in executing tax payment.

Penalty: The assessing officer shall point the amount of penalty. However, the amount of the penalty does not exceed the arrears of the payment. 

Offence Under Income Tax Section 234E with Penalty

Offence: An assessee failed to file the return regards to TDS/TCS within the time specified under Section 200(3) and 206C (3).

Penalty: The penalty beneath this section shall be Rs 200 towards every day of default.

Offence with Penalty Under Income Tax Section 234F

Offence: The taxpayer defaults in furnishing the return that comes beneath section 139(1) in the said limit.

Penalty: If the taxpayer furnished the return before the date 31st Dec towards the related assessment year, then Rs 5000 shall be the penalty imposed on him, while in other cases, it shall be Rs 10,000. But if the taxpayer's income is below Rs 5 lakh, he needs to file the penalty of an amount less than Rs 1000.

Offence and Penalty Under Section 207A

Offence: Under the act, there can be 2 cases, i.e. if the taxpayer has built an under-report of his income and the other is the taxpayer has addressed an under-report for misreporting of income.

Penalty: Towards the 1st case, if the penalty will be 50% of the subject tax amount based on the under-reported income. In the other case, 200% shall be the penalty of the subject tax amount based on under-reported income. 

Offence Under Section 271(1)(b) with Applicable Penalty

Offence: When the return does not get furnished by the taxpayer to provide an answer on the notice, then he will get punished beneath the same section. But this section is subjected to the AY 2016-17.

Penalty: The penalty under this section is Rs 10000 for every mistime.

Offence Under Income Tax Section 271(1)(c) with Penalty

Offence: Hide the income or advantages, or file improper particulars of his income or benefits. But this section is subjected up to the assessment year 2016-2017. 

Penalty: The minimum penalty beneath this section is 100% of these taxes and is avoided, and the highest of it can be 300% upon these taxes, i.e. avoided.

Offence Under Income Tax Section 271(1)(4) with Applicable Penalty

Offence: Income is given through the firm that is enrolled, but it is not as per the title of the partnership, and due to that, the partner returns their income that is less than the real amount. But the same section is liable up to the assessment year 2016-2017.

Penalty: Beneath the section, the penalty is the highest of 150% of the evaded tax. 

Income Tax Section 271A

Offence: Failure to retain or control the documents or books of accounts required beneath section 44AA.

Penalty: This shall influence the penalty of Rs 25,000.

Income Tax Section 271AA (2)

Offence: Folds to provide the details or documents to the authorisation required beneath section 92D (4).

Penalty: It points towards the penalty of Rs 5,00, 000.



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