| COURT: | ITAT Mumbai, Special Bench |
| CORAM: | B. R. Baskaran (AM), G. S. Pannu (AM), Joginder Singh (JM) |
| SECTION(S): | 269SS, 269T, 271D, 273B |
| GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
| CATCH WORDS: | cash deposit, cash loan, penalty |
| COUNSEL: | M. S. Mathuria |
| DATE: | June 13, 2018 (Date of pronouncement) |
| DATE: | July 18, 2018 (Date of publication) |
| AY: | 2008-09 |
| FILE: | Click here to view full post with file download link |
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S. 269SS/ 271D Penalty: It is not enough for the assessee to show that the transaction of taking loan/ deposit by cash is genuine or bona fide. It has also to be shown that there was reasonable cause u/s 273B for the assessee being unable to take the loan/deposit by account payee cheque or account payee bank draft |
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There is no dispute between the parties that bonafide nature of transactions alone would not be sufficient to escape the clutches of sec. 271D of the Act. As per the decision rendered by Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Kum. A.B. Shanthi (supra), it is required to be established that there was some bonafide reasons for the assessee for not taking or accepting loan or deposit by account payee cheque or account payee bank draft, so that the provisions of sec.273B of the Act will come to the help of the assessee. Only in such cases, the AO is precluded from levying penalty u/s 271D of the Act
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