Penalty u/s 43 of the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income &...

Penalty u/s 43 of the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income & Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act 2015 (BMA) - Even before the bank account was detected by the revenue authorities, the entire balance in the said account, as per instruction of the assessee’s late mother, has been donated to a bonafide charity of the global repute. In these circumstances, the plea that such a lapse of non-disclosure, even if that be so, is only an inadvertent mistake, and that conscious non-disclosure or any mens rea in the non-disclosure is completely contrary to human probabilities, does merit acceptance. - AT