Reasonable Cause for Late Return: penalty under section 271(1)(c) unsustainable where disclosure, audit filing and voluntary offer showed no concealme...
Invocation of the extended limitation proviso was examined on whether bona fide belief about Notification No.30/2012 and allocation of tax liability to service recipients supplied a plausible basis for non-payment; the analysis applied authorities requiring fraud, collusion, wilful misstatement or suppression of facts to invoke the extended five-year period. Absent documentary proof of transfer of possession or specific averments proving mala fide conduct or positive acts of suppression, mere non-payment or incomplete returns did not satisfy the threshold, and the extended-period demand was held unsustainable.
Invocation of the extended limitation proviso was examined on whether bona fide belief about Notification No.30/2012 and allocation of tax liability to service recipients supplied a plausible basis for non-payment; the analysis applied authorities requiring fraud, collusion, wilful misstatement or suppression of facts to invoke the extended five-year period. Absent documentary proof of transfer of possession or specific averments proving mala fide conduct or positive acts of suppression, mere non-payment or incomplete returns did not satisfy the threshold, and the extended-period demand was held unsustainable.
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