| COURT: | ITAT Delhi |
| CORAM: | A. T. Varkey (JM), Sudhakar Reddy (AM) |
| SECTION(S): | 271(1)(c) |
| GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
| CATCH WORDS: | concealment of income, furnishing inaccurate particulars of income, penalty |
| COUNSEL: | Dr. Rakesh Gupta |
| DATE: | July 21, 2015 (Date of pronouncement) |
| DATE: | September 1, 2015 (Date of publication) |
| AY: | 2008-09 |
| FILE: | Click here to download the file in pdf format |
| CITATION: | |
| S. 271(1)(c): Offering interest on maturity on Bonds as “long-term capital gains” instead of as “income from other sources” is a mere change in the head of income and a case of bona fide mistake which does not attract penalty | |
The assessee offered to tax, the income from the sale / maturity of National Housing Bond under the head long term capital gain. The A.O. chooses to tax the same under the head ‘income from other sources’. The interest of all the three years was offered to tax in the year of maturity and not year-wise. This is just change in the head of income under which the income is offered to tax. The taxation of the receipt is changed to the head of income ‘other sources’ from the head of income ‘capital gain’. The explanation filed by the assessee is bona fide. This is a case of a bona fide mistake on part of the assessee. All the information has been disclosed in the income tax return filed by the assessee. Income had been offered under the head ‘capital gain’ T.D.S. Under these circumstances, we cancel the penalty levied u/s 271(1)(c) of the Act.
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