--- title: "Supreme Court rules IT penalties on repealed ordinance unlawful" description: "Most outlets led with the Supreme Court's ruling that applying tax penalties from the Income Tax Ordinance 2001 to repealed law assessments is unlawful. The Business Recorder highlighted the specific sections declared unlawful and mentioned the composition of the bench. Dawn emphasized the ruling as resolving a conflict between prior decisions and noted the legal implications of the penalties being retrospective. Both excerpts framed the ruling as a definitive legal settlement on the matter." url: https://harzaviya.com/stories/2648-retrospective-tax-penalties-are-unlawful-supreme-court site: HarZaviya language: en --- # Supreme Court rules IT penalties on repealed ordinance unlawful business · latest filing 11 Aug 2026, 9:43 AM PKT · 11 Aug 2026 · 3 articles from 3 outlets **HarZaviya summary** — how 3 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts: > Most outlets led with the Supreme Court's ruling that applying tax penalties from the Income Tax Ordinance 2001 to repealed law assessments is unlawful. The Business Recorder highlighted the specific sections declared unlawful and mentioned the composition of the bench. Dawn emphasized the ruling as resolving a conflict between prior decisions and noted the legal implications of the penalties being retrospective. Both excerpts framed the ruling as a definitive legal settlement on the matter. ## Same story from 3 outlets Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source. - **ProPakistani** — [New Tax Penalties Cannot Be Applied To Old Cases: Supreme Court](https://propakistani.pk/2026/08/11/new-tax-penalties-cannot-be-applied-to-old-cases-supreme-court/) · 11 Aug 2026, 9:43 AM PKT > The Supreme Court of Pakistan has ruled that penalties imposed under the Income Tax Ordinance 2001 cannot be applied retrospectively… Read More The post New Tax Penalties Cannot Be Applied To Old Cases: Supreme Court appeared first on ProPakistani. - **Dawn** — [Retrospective tax penalties are ‘unlawful’: Supreme Court](https://www.dawn.com/news/2022052/retrospective-tax-penalties-are-unlawful-supreme-court) · 11 Aug 2026, 7:30 AM PKT · 81% identical wording to the newest filing > • Says sanctions under ITO 2001 cannot apply to assessments governed by repealed law • Settles conflict between two previous rulings ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that penalties imposed under the Income Tax Ordinance (ITO) 2001 for assessments completed before June 30, 2002 were illegal and legally unsustainable, emphasising that such penalties could not be applied retrospectivel... - **Business Recorder** — [SC declares applying IT penalties on repealed ordinance unlawful](https://www.brecorder.com/news/40434201/sc-declares-applying-it-penalties-on-repealed-ordinance-unlawful) · 11 Aug 2026, 5:00 AM PKT · 71% identical wording to the newest filing > ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has held that the penalties under Sections 182,184 and 186 of the Income Tax Ordinance (ITO), 2001 are unlawful and legally unsustainable. A five-member larger bench, headed by Justice Shahid Waheed, which decided the issue, also held that “the conclusion drawn by a three-member Bench (of SC) in the case of Eli Lilly Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd depicts correct legal positio... 3 articles from 3 outlets, 11 Aug 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text. --- HarZaviya compares how Pakistani outlets cover the same story. It stores and shows each outlet's headline and a short excerpt, and links out — it never copies article text, and every headline belongs to the outlet that wrote it. It takes no stance on any outlet. Pages: [Top stories](https://harzaviya.com/) · [Latest headlines](https://harzaviya.com/feed) · [Archive](https://harzaviya.com/archive) · [Why](https://harzaviya.com/why) · [Sources](https://harzaviya.com/sources) · [Methodology](https://harzaviya.com/methodology) · [About](https://harzaviya.com/about) · [About the bot](https://harzaviya.com/about-bot) Trackers: [Gold prices](https://harzaviya.com/gold-prices) · [Fuel prices](https://harzaviya.com/fuel-prices) · [Stock exchange](https://harzaviya.com/stock-exchange) Any page on this site is available as markdown: send `Accept: text/markdown`, or add `.md` to the path.