Summary chart for Penalties in Income Tax

Penalty framework for income tax defaults: categorised monetary sanctions and reporting obligations enforce compliance across payment, reporting, and documentation failures.

The document sets out a structured income tax penalty regime by default type, specifying the authority empowered to levy penalties and the measure or cap of sanction. Key categories include payment defaults (penalty up to tax and interest in arrears), under reporting/misreporting (percentage penalties on tax computed on under reported income), failures to withhold/collect tax (penalty equal to tax not deducted/collected), documentation and reporting breaches (fixed, daily, or percentage penalties), and differentiated penalties for undisclosed income, false entries, and contraventions of cash transaction restrictions.