{"id":70797,"date":"2025-01-21T09:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T03:46:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T03:46:26","slug":"statutory-penalty-provisions-must-follow-moderation-reasonableness-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=70797","title":{"rendered":"Statutory penalty provisions must follow moderation, reasonableness principles."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statutory penalty provisions must follow moderation, reasonableness principles.<br \/>Case-Laws<br \/>GST<br \/>Section 129 of CGST Act constitutes statutory penalty provision overriding others, but cannot override Section 126 principles of moderation for minor breaches. HC held non-obstante clause in Section 129 cannot annihilate Section 126 rules for considering penalty levy. Section 126(6) excludes fixed sum\/percentage penalties, distinguishing discretionary penalties. Authorities must differentiate t<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/highlights?id=85051\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Case-Laws &#8211; GST &#8211; Highlights &#8211; Section 129 of CGST Act constitutes statutory penalty provision overriding others, but cannot override Section 126 principles of moderation for minor breaches. HC held non-obstante clause in Section 129 cannot annihilate Se<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}