In Pvt. Ltd. Company can Penalty taken as expense in profit and loss.
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This discussion clarifies whether penalties paid by a Private Limited company can be treated as an expense in the profit and loss account for tax purposes. While a company can record penalties as expenses in its books, the Income Tax Act generally disallows these as deductions when calculating taxable profit.
In books of account of Company, you can show penalty as Expenses in profit and loss account. but as penalty is not allowed as Expenses under income tax act, it's got disallowed at time of calculation of profit of company for filing income tax return.