₹10,00,000 paid in cash to one payee across two days
Facts
Two payments of ₹5,00,000 each, on 13 October 2025 and 31 March 2026, to Rajendra S Shah. 182 cash party-days were tested in total; these two exceeded the limit.
Our comments
Section 40A(3) disallows the whole of any expenditure paid otherwise than by account-payee cheque where payments to one payee in one day exceed ₹10,000. ₹5,00,000 in a single day is fifty times the limit. If any part of this is a loan repayment rather than expenditure, section 269T applies instead and carries a penalty equal to 100% of the amount under section 271E.
| Amount involved | ₹10,00,000 |
| Tax | nq |
| Interest | nq |
| Penalty | nq |
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Establish what these two payments were for before anything else in this file is looked at.