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Section 446

Failure to get accounts audited

Section

Section Number

446

Chapter

CHAPTER XXI - Penalties

Act

Income-tax Act, 2025

Year

2026

Failure to get accounts audited

10[Penalty for failure to furnish information or for furnishing inaccurate information on transaction of crypto-asset.

446. (1) If any person who is required to furnish a statement in respect of a transaction of a crypto-asset under section 509(1), fails to furnish such statement within the time prescribed under the said section, the prescribed income-tax authority under that section may impose on him, a penalty of Rs. 200 for every day for which such failure continues.

(2) The prescribed income-tax authority may impose a penalty of Rs. 50000 on a person referred in sub-section (1), if such person—

(a) provides inaccurate information in the statement and fails to remove such inaccuracy as per section 509(4); or
(b) fails to comply with due diligence the requirement under section 509(5).]

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