Bona fide legal claim based on prevailing precedents avoided penalty when fully disclosed and voluntarily withdrawn.

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....Penalty under section 270A was deleted where the assessee claimed deduction for Health and Education Cess on a bona fide legal view supported by existing High Court precedents, fully disclosed the claim in the return, and voluntarily withdrew the claim during assessment after a retrospective statutory explanation was introduced. Applying the principle that a claim made on a debatable legal interpretation with full disclosure and without concealment does not attract penalty, the case falls within the non-penalising scope of the relevant proviso, leading to deletion of the penalty.....