Opportunity to furnish unsecured-loan confirmations is required before reassessment initiation; proceedings require fresh consideration after taxpayer...
Under-reporting on a first reassessment return attracts penalty, while enhanced misreporting penalty requires proof of a statutory misreporting catego...
Imposition of a penalty without issuing a show cause notice or affording a hearing breaches the statutory discipline governing penalties and the principles of natural justice. As the revenue did not dispute that no notice initiating penalty proceedings was issued, the High Court found the petitioner had been denied the required opportunity to respond. The penalty was therefore unsustainable, and the writ petition was disposed of accordingly.
Imposition of a penalty without issuing a show cause notice or affording a hearing breaches the statutory discipline governing penalties and the principles of natural justice. As the revenue did not dispute that no notice initiating penalty proceedings was issued, the High Court found the petitioner had been denied the required opportunity to respond. The penalty was therefore unsustainable, and the writ petition was disposed of accordingly.
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