2019 (2) TMI 1056

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.... ORDER Per Shamim Yahya, A. M.: These are appeals by the assessee against the respective orders of the learned Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals)-38, Mumbai ('ld.CIT(A) for short) dated 25.01.2017 and pertains to the assessment years (A.Y.) 2009-10 to 2011-12, sustaining the levy of penalty u/s. 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (the Act for short). 2. In this case, the ld. CIT(A) h....

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.... case has been completed on the returned income. Hence, when the return of income and the assessed income are same, the machinery provision for levy of penalty u/s. 271(1)(c) fails, as the penalty u/s. 271(1)(c) is levied with reference to the tax sought to be evaded, which is the difference between the income returned and that assessed by the A.O. 7. In this case, since the assessed income and....