Tax Penalty u/s 271(1)(b) Overturned: Non-Receipt of Notices Justifies Non-Compliance for Government Employee.

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....Penalty U/s 271(1)(b) - As only source of income of the assessee is from salary from Government of Rajasthan on which TDS has all ready been deducted and apart from this there is no other source of income of the assessee. Hence, there could not be any intention upon the assessee for skipping the service of notices. It was proved that there was ‘reasonable cause’ for the assessee in failure to comply with the provisions of Section 271(1)(b) of the Act as the ‘non-appearance’ of the assessee before the A.O. was only because of the ‘non-receipts’ of the notices - AT....