TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2015 (12) TMI 390
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....ts of the case are that the assessee was supposed to submit TDS return within the time. Income Tax Department has processed TDS return under section 200A of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The department has intimated to the assessee that in F.Y. 2012-13, the return filed by the assessee for the quarter-3 was time barred, and therefore, it is required to pay a penalty under section 234E of the Income Tax Act. The penalty of Rs. 3,115/- was imposed upon the assessee. This order was passed on 9.11.2013. It was intimated to the assessee. This order was challenged by the assessee in appeal no.172 before the CIT(A), which has also been disposed with the impugned order. Similarly, the TDS return of the assessee for the quarter-4 in the F.Y.2013-14 was ....
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....s, perused the material on record and duly considered facts of the case in the light of the applicable legal position. In addition to his argument on the merits, learned counsel has also invited our attention to the reports about the decisions of various Hon'ble High Courts, including Hon'ble Kerala High Court, in the case of Narath Mapila LP School Vs Union of India [WP (C) 31498/2013(J)], Hon'ble Karanataka High Court in the case of Adithya Bizor P Solutions Vs Union of India [WP No. 6918-6938/2014(T-IT), Hon'ble Rajasthan High Court in the case of Om Prakash Dhoot Vs Union of India [WP No. 1981 of 2014] and of Hon'ble Bombay High Court in the case of Rashmikant Kundalia Vs Union of India [WP No. 771 of 2014], granting stay on the demands....
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....his section shall apply to a statement referred to in sub-section (3) of section 200 or the proviso to sub-section (3) of section 206C which is to be delivered or caused to be delivered for tax deducted at source or tax collected at source, as the case may be, on or after the 1st day of July, 2012. 6. We may also reproduce the Section 200A which was inserted by the Finance Act 2009 with effect from 1st April 2010. This statutory provision, as it stood at the relevant point of time, was as follows: 200A: Processing of statements of tax deducted at source (1) Where a statement of tax deduction at source, or a correction statement, has been made by a person deducting any sum (hereafter referred to in this section as deductor) un....
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.... of deduction of tax at source, where such rate is not in accordance with the provisions of this Act; (2) For the purposes of processing of statements under subsection (1), the Board may make a scheme for centralised processing of statements of tax deducted at source to expeditiously determine the tax payable by, or the refund due to, the deductor as required under the said subsection. 7. By way of Finance Act 2015, and with effect from 1st June 2015, there is an amendment in Section 200A and this amendment, as stated in the Finance Act 2015, is as follows: In section 200A of the Income-tax Act, in sub-section (1), for clauses (c) to (e), the following clauses shall be substituted with effect from the 1st day of June, 2015, namely:....
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....permitted computation of amount recoverable from, or payable to, the tax deductor after making the following adjustments: (a). after making adjustment on account of "arithmetical errors" and "incorrect claims apparent from any information in the statement" - Section 200A(1)(a) (b). after making adjustment for 'interest, if any, computed on the basis of sums deductible as computed in the statement". - Section 200A(1)(b) 9. No other adjustments in the amount refundable to, or recoverable from, the tax deductor, were permissible in accordance with the law as it existed at that point of time. 10. In view of the above discussions, in our considered view, the adjustment in respect of levy of fees under section 234E was indeed be....