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Ministry of Finance, Government of India

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Section 271B

Failure to get accounts audited

Section

Section Number

271B

Chapter

CHAPTER XXI - PENALTIES IMPOSABLE

Act

Income-tax Act, 1961

Year

2000

Failure to get accounts audited

Failure to get accounts audited
69 [Failure to get accounts audited.
271B. If any person fails 70 [***] to get his accounts audited in respect of any previous year or years relevant to an assessment year or 71[furnish a report of such audit as required under section 44AB], the 72[Assessing] Officer may direct that such person shall pay, by way of penalty, a sum equal to one-half per cent of the total sales, turnover or gross receipts, as the case may be, in business, or of the gross receipts in profession, in such previous year or years or a sum of one hundred thousand rupees, whichever is less.]

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