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Section 276D

Failure to produce accounts and documents

Section

Section Number

276D

Chapter

CHAPTER XXII - OFFENCES AND PROSECUTIONS

Act

Income-tax Act, 1961

Year

1995

Failure to produce accounts and documents

Failure to produce accounts and documents
99 [Failure to produce accounts and documents.
276D.  If a person wilfully fails to produce, or cause to be produced, on or before the date specified in any notice served on him under sub-section (1) of section 142, such accounts and documents as are referred to in the notice 1[or wilfully fails to comply with a direction issued to him under sub-section (2A) of that section], he shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine equal to a sum calculated at a rate which shall not be less than four rupees or more than ten rupees for every day during which the default continues, or with both.]

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