Specific penalty charges under section 270A are mandatory; vague notices for under-reporting or misreporting cannot sustain penalties.

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....Penalty notices under section 270A must specify whether the proposed charge is under-reporting of income or misreporting under a particular statutory limb. Notices that omit the precise charge fail to communicate the basis of penalty proceedings and are contrary to law. Applying this requirement, the Tribunal quashed the penalty proceedings for both assessment years and deleted the penalties because the notices did not identify the applicable charge.....