Reasonable cause for non-filing of a return supported deletion of salary-income misreporting penalty despite tax deducted at source.

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....Section 270A penalty for misreporting income was deleted where failure to file the original return was unintentional and resulted from severe personal and professional hardship. Salary income had already been subjected to tax deduction at source and was available in departmental records. The assessee disclosed that income in response to reassessment proceedings, and the reassessment accepted the returned income. These facts established reasonable cause and supported immunity from penalty despite non-filing of the original return.....