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Issues: Whether the Tribunal was justified in cancelling the penalty levied under section 273(2)(b) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, for failure to furnish an estimate of advance tax payable for the assessment year 1982-83.
Analysis: The penalty under section 273(2)(b) is discretionary, and the discretion available to the Assessing Officer is equally available to the appellate authorities. The Tribunal exercised that discretion in favour of the assessee on the basis that the assessee had reasonable cause in the surrounding circumstances, including the search, the belated return, the additional income disclosed, and the claim of protection under the amnesty scheme. A different view on the merits did not justify interference so long as the Tribunal's exercise of discretion was within law.
Conclusion: The Tribunal's order cancelling the penalty was upheld and the issue was answered in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The penalty cancellation was sustained, and the reference was answered in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: Where penalty is discretionary, an appellate authority's bona fide exercise of that discretion in favour of the assessee will not be interfered with merely because the court might have reached a different conclusion on the same facts.
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