Penalty for inaccurate particulars requires more than a Section 43B addition or a disclosed foreign-dividend reporting mismatch.

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....Penalty under Section 271(1)(c) does not follow merely from a Section 43B disallowance where statutory tax liabilities were not claimed as expenditure, were disclosed in the tax audit report, and rested on a plausible interpretation; a quantum addition alone does not establish inaccurate particulars. Foreign dividend income disclosed in Schedule SI and taxed at the applicable special rate is not concealed merely because it was omitted from the computation summary, where the mismatch was inadvertent and rectification was voluntarily sought before revisionary proceedings. Penalties relating to both items were deleted, and the Revenue's challenge failed.....