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1961Section 276D

276D. 33[Failure to comply with a direction of special audit or valuation.

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From the Income Tax Department's correspondence.

If a person wilfully fails to comply with a direction issued to him under sub-section (2A) of section 142, he shall be punishable with simple imprisonment for a term up to six months, or with fine, or with both.]

Footnotes

  1. 33.Sub. by Act No. 4 of 2026, w.e.f. 1-3-2026. Prior to its substitution, section 276D, as ins. by Act No. 42 of 1970, w.e.f. 1-4-1971 and later on amended by the Act No. 41 of 1975, w.e.f. 1-4-1976 and Act No. 25 of 2014, w.e.f. 1-10-2014, read as under : "276D. Failure to produce accounts and documents.—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 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 and with fine."↩

Income-tax Act, 1961: text as on 22 May 2026 · Official source ↗ ·