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How income tax department can penalise you for under-reporting, misreporting income
April, 19th 2018

Under-reporting income or inflating deductions/exemptions in income tax return can attract heavy penalties ranging from 50% to 200% of tax evaded, say experts. An advisory issued yesterday by the income tax department has warned salaried tax payers against trying to evade tax by indulging in these malpractices and pointed out that these would attract penalties as per law. The advisory follows several cases of salaried employees of well-known companies filing income tax returns showing incorrect income and/or deductions to claim refunds that came to light in Bengaluru recently. It was reported that such tax evasion had been aided and in fact suggested by tax intermediaries who played a major role in the filing of the fraudulent returns.

Says Abhishek Soni, CEO, tax2win.in, a tax filing firm: “Through the recent cautionary advice, Income Tax Department has warned salaried class taxpayers against under-reporting of income or misreporting of income in their ITRs. The violators will be penalized under section 270A of the Act followed by prosecution as well. As per Section 270A, if income is under-reported on account of misreporting of income then penalty shall be leviable at the rate of 200% of tax payable on under-reported income. However, if income is under-reported due to any other case, the penalty shall be 50% of tax payable on under-reported income. So, this time be aware and file an accurate and timely return.”

In fact, these cases may also have triggered the changes made in the income tax return form 1 (the basic and simplest return form to be used for return filing) which now seeks many more details of salary and house property income than before. ITR-1 or Sahaj was changed for filing FY17-18 returns and now asks for specific details of salary. It asks for a tax payer’s salary details in separate fields (i.e breakup of salary) such as allowances that are not exempt, value of perquisites, profit in lieu of salary and deductions claimed under section 16. Earlier, Sahaj did not ask for such details of salary, only a total salary amount was to be disclosed. The new Sahaj form also asks the return filer to provide, where applicable, income from property such as gross rent received/ receivable/ letable value; tax paid to local authorities; annual value; interest payable on borrowed capital; and income chargeable under the head house property. Clearly, the tax department is asking for detailed disclosures now in order to catch under/misreporting of income by salaried tax payers.

The racket detected by the income tax department recently in Bengaluru was one of fraudulent claim of tax refunds by salaried employees. Reportedly, the employees had falsely claimed loss under the head income from house property in order to file fraudulent tax refund claims.

Fraudulently claiming tax refunds by misreporting income or showing false losses which reduce taxable income can attract heavy penalties. Section 270 of the Income Tax Act was amended in the last budget post demonetisation to ensure that misreporting and under-reporting of income was heavily penalised.

As per the amended section 270A of the Income Tax Act, in case of misreporting of income the income tax officer can levy a penalty of 200 per cent of the amount of tax payable on under-reported income. etc.

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