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Income-tax Act, 1961 · Chapter XXI: Penalties Imposable

Section 272BB: Penalty for failure to comply with the provisions of section 203A

The Income-tax Act, 1961 was repealed by the Income-tax Act, 2025 from 1 April 2026. The text is kept here because the judgments below apply it.

(1) If a person fails to comply with the provisions of section 203A, he shall, on an order passed by the [Assessing Officer], pay, by way of penalty, [a sum of ten thousand rupees]. [(1A) If a person who is required to quote his —tax deduction account number‖ or, as the case may be, —tax collection account number‖ or —tax deduction and collection account number‖ in the challans or certificates or statements or other documents referred to in sub-section (2) of section 203A, quotes a number which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, the Assessing Officer may direct that such person shall pay, by way of penalty, a sum of ten thousand rupees.]

(2) No order under sub-section (1) [or sub-section (1A)] shall be passed unless the person on whom the penalty is proposed to be imposed is given an opportunity of being heard in the matter.]

Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.

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