Under-reporting immunity under Section 270AA applies absent misreporting; maintained transfer-pricing records secured penalty immunity in this case.

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....The text clarifies that immunity under Section 270AA applies only to plain 'under-reporting of income' and does not extend where under-reporting is a consequence of 'misreporting' as defined in relation to penalty provisions. It further states that transfer-pricing adjustments, being arm's-length determinations, do not by themselves constitute misreporting where the taxpayer maintained required transfer-pricing documentation and complied with Chapter X disclosures; accordingly the taxpayer qualified for immunity under Section 270AA and the writ petition was allowed.....