OFFENCES AND PROSECUTIONS IN INCOME TAX

By | August 17, 2015
(Last Updated On: August 16, 2015)

OFFENCES AND PROSECUTIONS

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Notes :

  1. No person is punishable for any failure under section 276A, 276AB or 276B if he proves that there was reasonable cause for such failure (vide section 278AA).
  2. (a) Prosecution for offences under section 275A, section 275B, section 276, section 276A, section 276B, section 276BB, section 276C, section 276CC, section 276D, section 277, section 277A and section 278 to be instituted with previous sanction of Principal Director General/Principal Chief Commissioner/Principal Commissioner/Director General/Chief Commissioner/Commissioner, except where prosecution is at the instance of the Commissioner (Appeals) or the appropriate authority (videsection 279).

          (b) The offences under Chapter XXII can be compounded (either before or after the institution of                proceedings) by Principal Director General/Director General or Principal Chief

           Commissioner/Chief Commissioner.

  1. Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a person, being a company, and the punishment for such offence is imprisonment and fine, then, such company shall be punished with fine and every person, referred to in sub-section (1) of section 278B, or the director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company referred to in sub-section (2) of section 278B shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
  2. With effect from 1-4-2008 under section 278AB a person may apply to the Principal Commissioner/Commissioner for granting immunity from prosecution, if he has applied for settlement under section 245C and the proceedings have abated under section 245HA. The application shall not be made after institution of prosecution proceedings after abatement.

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