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Issues: Whether penalty proceedings under section 28(1)(a) of the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922 could be completed after reassessment and after disposal of the original assessment appeal, and whether penalty could be levied for the default committed in the original return after the original assessment had been reopened.
Analysis: Penalty proceedings, though arising out of assessment, are separate and independent in the statutory scheme. The machinery for penalty is distinct, prior approval is required, and the notice of demand separately contemplates tax and penalty as different sums payable. The imposition of penalty is not required to be simultaneous with the original assessment; what is necessary is that tax must be quantified before penalty is imposed, and the ceiling of penalty is to be worked out with reference to the sum payable at the time of penalty. If reassessment has superseded the original assessment, the reassessed sum provides the base for computing the permissible penalty. A default in filing the original return remains punishable even after reassessment.
Conclusion: The penalty under section 28(1)(a) was validly imposed after reassessment, and the challenge to the levy failed.
Ratio Decidendi: Penalty proceedings under the Income-tax Act are independent of assessment proceedings, and for a penalty based on a default in the original return, the authority may impose penalty after reassessment so long as the tax payable is quantified at the time of penalty and the statutory ceiling is observed.
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