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Section 442

Penalty for failure to keep and maintain information and document, etc., in respect of certain transactions

(1)
The Assessing Officer or Commissioner (Appeals) may impose a penalty of 2% of the value of each international transaction or specified domestic transaction entered into by a person, if in respect of such transaction he,—

(a) fails to keep and maintain any such information and document as required by section 171(1);

(b)
fails to report such transaction as he is required to do so; or

(c) maintains or furnishes an incorrect information or document.

(2)
The prescribed income-tax authority referred to in section 171(4) may impose a penalty of five lakh rupees on a person, if he fails to furnish the information and document required under the said section.