Reasonable cause for delay in tax audit compliance exempts penalty: ITAT allows assessee's appeal.

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....The ITAT held that the assessee was prevented by reasonable and genuine cause for not getting the books audited in time u/s 44AB for the relevant previous years due to peculiar circumstances. Relying on the precedent of APL (India) Pvt. Ltd., the ITAT directed the AO to delete the penalty levied u/s 271B, allowing the assessee's appeal on the ground of reasonable cause for delay in audit compliance.....