Carrefour Wc & C India Pvt. Ltd., New ... vs Dcit, Circle-5(2), New Delhi on 23 August, 2018
The Hon'ble
Telangana & AP High Court in the case of Pr. CIT Vs. G. K.
Properties P. Ltd. (supra) has been pleased to hold that merely
because assessee made a claim, which was not acceptable ipso
facto, the assessee could not be said to have made a wrong claim
by furnishing inaccurate particulars attracting penalty under
section 271(l)(c) of the Act. On page No. 1 in para No. 3 of the
penalty order, the Assessing Officer has reproduced the names of
the parties to whom the payments claimed to have been made by
the assessee and by furnishing affidavit, TDS Certificates in
support of payment of Rs.20,34,023/-, Tax Audit Report for the
year as well as Form No. 3CBE for the year the assessee had
explained that 'NIL' TDS demand was there. It is not the case of
the Revenue that these informations were false. We are thus of
the view that in absence of positive evidence that there was
concealment of particulars of income or furnishing inaccurate
particulars thereof on the part of the assessee towards the
additions in question, the Assessing Officer was not justified in
imposing the penalty under section 271 (1)(c ) at Rs.41,19,289/-.
The same is directed to be deleted. The grounds are accordingly
allowed.