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Section 75 in Finance Act, 1999 [Entire Act]
Section 77 in Finance Act, 1999 [Entire Act]
Section 78 in Finance Act, 1999 [Entire Act]
Finance Act, 1999
Dilip N. Shroff vs Joint Commissioner Of Income Tax, ... on 18 May, 2007
10. A look at the provisions of the section does show, that it does prescribe a minimum amount of penalty, by using the expression "not less than". Of course, the upper limit has also been prescribed therein. The question precisely is, as to whether the Tribunal, or the authority below, have any authority to impose a penalty, which is even less than the amount permissible to be imposed by Section 76. Learned Counsel for the assessee referred to the provisions of Section 80, and one judgment of Hon'ble the Supreme Court, in Dilip N.Shroff v. Joint Commissioner of Income Tax , and one judgment of Division Bench of this Court, in Union of India through Commissioner of Central Excise v. Dial and Travel reported in (2007) 208 CTR Reports-170, and contended, that when Section 80 provides that penalty shall not be imposable for any failures referred in Sections 76, 77 and 78, if the assessee proves, that there was reasonable cause for the said failure, which reasonably implies, that the authority can impose a penalty, less than the minimum prescribed in the two sections.
The Central Excise Act, 1944
Section 68 in Finance Act, 1999 [Entire Act]
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