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    SUBJECT TAXATION

    TOPIC AGRICULTURAL INCOME IN INDIA

    SUBMITTED BY

    SHREYA SINGH

    ROLL NO. 31

    VIIIth SEMESTER

    B.A. LL.B. (HONS.)

    FACULTY OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD.

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    PREFACE

    This project work is concerning the taxation system on agricultural income in India. Agricultural

    Income is exempt from tax under Section 10(1) of the Income Tax Act. Our constitution contain

    provisions distributing lawmaking power between states and the union on matters enlisted in three

    lists contained in the Seventh Schedule of the constitution. List I deals with matters under the

    domain of the Union of India. List II contain matters which are under the domain of states with

    regard to legislations. Agriculture sector falls under List II. However, in some cases agricultural

    income is taken into consideration to determine tax on non-agricultural income of an assessee. In

    this project, I shall attempt to shed some light on the various details and essentials of this peculiar

    feature provided under the taxation laws of India.

    I would take this opportunity to extend my gratitude to Prof. R. K. Chaubey for his endless

    guidance and patience. Without his direction and support, the accomplishment of this project

    would not have been possible.

    Shreya Singh

    Roll No. 31

    VIIIth Semester

    B.A. LL.B (Hons.)

    Faculty of Law, University of Allahabad.

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    INDEX

    S. No. CONTENTS Pg. No.

    1. Introduction 4

    2. Definition of Agriculture 4

    3. Agricultural Income as defined under the Income Tax Act, 1961 5

    4. Characteristic Features of Agricultural Income under the IT Act 8

    5. Agricultural Rent/Revenue 8

    6. Income from Agricultural Produce and from Manufacturing Process 12

    7. Exemption of Capital Gain on transfer of Agricultural Land 13

    8. Agricultural House Property 14

    9. Agricultural Income as Part of Business Profits 14

    10. By Reason of Indirect Connection 15

    11. Dividend paid by Company out of Agricultural Income 15

    12. Disintegration of Income into Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Elements 15

    13. Burden of Proof 16

    14. Reference to Court 16

    15. Conclusion 17

    16. Bibliography 18

    INTRODUCTION

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    Agricultural income [2(1A)] has not been taxed right from the beginning under the Income-tax Act.

    The justification for such exemption is that income from agriculture is taxed in the form of land

    revenue. Another reason for its being kept outside the purview of the Income-tax Act, 1961, is that

    agriculture being a State subject, the Central Government is not entitled to tax this source of

    income. The State Governments are of course, free to tax this source. A few of them are, in fact,

    doing so. The position under the Income-tax Act is that section 10(1) exempts agricultural income

    from income-tax. Because of the exemption it enjoys, it is necessary to clearly understand the

    definition of the term 'Agricultural Income.

    SECTION 10 OF THE INCOME TAX ACT, 1961 :- Incomes not included in total income:

    In computing the total income of a previous year of any person, any income falling within any of

    the following clauses shall not be included - (1) Agricultural income

    DEFINITION OF AGRICULTURE:

    'Agriculture' in its primary sense denotes the cultivation of the field and is restricted to cultivation

    of the land in the strict sense of the term, meaning thereby tilling of the land, sowing of the seeds,

    planting and similar operations on the land. These are basic operations and require the expenditure

    of human skill and labour upon the land itself. Operations which the agriculturist has to resort to

    and which are absolutely necessary for the purpose of effectively raising produce from the land,

    e.g., weeding, digging the soil around the growth, removal of undesirable undergrowth, and all

    operations which foster the growth and preservation of the same not only from insects and pestsbut also from depredation from outside, tending, pruning, cutting, harvesting and rendering the

    produce fit for the market, would all be agricultural operations when taken in conjunction with the

    basic operations. The human labour and skill spent in the performance of these subsequent

    operations cannot be said to have been spent on the land itself. The mere performance of these

    subsequent operations on the products of the land, where such products have not been raised on the

    land by the performance of the basic operations, would not be enough to characterise them as

    agricultural operations.

    AGRICULTURAL INCOME AS DEFINED UNDER THE INCOME TAX ACT , 1961 :

    Section 2, Clause (1A) "Agricultural income" means

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    (a) any rent or revenue derived from land which is situated in India and is used for agricultural

    purposes;

    (b) Any income derived from such land by

    (i) Agriculture; or

    (ii) The performance by a cultivator or receiver of rent-in-kind of any process ordinarily employed

    by a cultivator or receiver of rent-in-kind to render the produce raised or received by him fit to be

    taken to market; or

    (iii) The sale by a cultivator or receiver of rent-in-kind of the produce raised or received by him, in

    respect of which no process has been performed other than a process of the nature described in

    paragraph (ii) of this sub-clause;

    (c) Any income derived from any building owned and occupied by the receiver of the rent or

    revenue of any such land, or occupied by the cultivator or the receiver of rent-in-kind, of any landwith respect to which, or the produce of which, any process mentioned in paragraphs (ii) and (iii)

    of sub-clause (b) is carried on :

    Provided that

    (i) The building is on or in the immediate vicinity of the land, and is a building which the receiver

    of the rent or revenue or the cultivator, or the receiver of rent-in-kind, by reason of his connection

    with the land, requires as a dwelling house, or as a store-house, or other out-building, and

    (ii) The land is either assessed to land revenue in India or is subject to a local rate assessed and

    collected by officers of the Government as such or where the land is not so assessed to landrevenue or subject to a local rate, it is not situated

    (A) In any area which is comprised within the jurisdiction of a municipality (whether known as a

    municipality, municipal corporation, notified area committee, town area committee, town

    committee or by any other name) or a cantonment board and which has a population of not less

    than ten thousand according to the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been

    published before the first day of the previous year; or

    (B) In any area within such distance, not being more than eight kilometres, from the local limits of

    any municipality or cantonment board referred to in item (A), as the Central Government may,having regard to the extent of, and scope for, urbanisation of that area and other relevant

    considerations, specify in this behalf by notification in the Official Gazette.

    Explanation : For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that revenue derived from land shall

    not include and shall be deemed never to have included any income arising from the transfer of any

    land referred to in item (a) or item (b) of sub-clause (iii) of clause (14) of this section

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    CLAUSE (1A): AGRICULTURAL INCOME

    The definition of 'agricultural income' was the same in this Act as in the 1922 Act. However, in

    1970 it was amended with retrospective effect from the commencement of this Act. In order to

    constitute agricultural income it is no longer required that the land from which the income is

    derived should be assessed to land revenue or to a local rate, while income from buildings which

    are situated in urban areas or their vicinity is now excluded from the definition of 'agricultural

    income' in certain circumstances. In 2002, Explanation 2 was inserted which declared that income

    derived from any building or land referred to in sub-clause (c) arising from its use for any purposeother than agriculture shall not be agricultural income.

    Section 10(1) provides that agricultural income is not to be included in the total income of the

    assessee. The result is that agricultural income is not only exempt front tax but, under the scheme

    of this Act, is also to be excluded in computing the total income on the basis of which the rare

    applicable to the taxable income is determined. However, since 1973 the annual Finance Acts have

    superseded this scheme by providing for inclusion of agricultural income in the total income for the

    limited purpose of determining the rate applicable to the taxable income. These provisions are

    constitutional.1

    Agricultural income has to be exempted from tax under this Act because Parliament has no power

    under the Constitution to levy tax on agricultural income. However, Parliament has power to levy

    tare on capital gain arising from transfer of agricultural land. State legislatures are entitled to

    impose a tax on any of the categories or agricultural income which are exempted from tax under

    this Act.2

    Like all other income, agricultural income may be realised in cash or in kind: agricultural produce

    which is used by the assessee as raw material in his business may constitute agricultural income, 3

    or the landlord may recover rents in the form of a share of crops. Where an assessee obtains a

    decree against his tenant for arrears of rent for agricultural lands and in execution of the decree

    1 Joseph v ITO 121 ITR 178; Abdulla v ITO 161 ITR 589.

    2 The Constitution, Seventh Schedule, State List, Entry 46.

    3 Dooars v C Ag IT 44 ITR 6 (SC).

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    puts up the tenants holding for sale and purchases it himself, setting off the purchase price against

    the decretal dues, there is a receipt or realisation of agricultural income. 4

    CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF AGRICULTURAL INCOME AS

    PROVIDED UNDER THE INCOME TAX ACT, 1961 :

    ( A )Clause ( lA) (a): AGRICULTURAL RENT OR REVENUE

    This sub-clause requires three; conditions to be satisfied;

    (i) the rent or revenue should be derived from land;

    (ii) the land should be situated in India; and

    4 Ram Ran v Prov of Bihar 17 ITR 164.

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    (iii) the land should be used for agricultural purposes.

    (i) Rent or Revenue Derived from Land Rent - is a technical conception, its leading

    characteristic being that it is a payment in money or in kind by one person to another inrespect of the grant of a right to use land. Revenue is used in the broad sense of return,

    yield or income, and not in the sense of land revenue. 1A 'mustajiri lease ' is a

    lease which creates an interest in land and under which the proprietor gives up his

    right to collect the rents from the tenants and grants the same to the mustajir in

    return for a fixed annual payment. That fixed payment is the 'rent' which the

    proprietor reserves under the mustajiri lease, and therefore should be regarded as

    agricultural income provided the other conditions are fulfilled. 2

    The word derived is not a term or art 3 but is synonymous with arising or

    'accruing'. Capital gain arising from a transfer of agricultural land had been held by the

    Bombay High Court to be revenue derived from that land; while the Delhi and Kerala

    High Courts had taken a contrary view. The Bombay view was superseded, by the

    explanation to clause (1A) inserted by the Finance Act 1989 with retrospective effect,

    from 1 April 1970. The Supreme Court has held that explanation 1 is validly enacted. 4 This

    explanation has been applied by various High Courts m the under mentioned cases. It

    does not apply to assessment year 1969-70 and earlier years.

    Revenue can be said to be 'derived from land' only if land is the immediate and effective

    source of the revenue and hot the secondary and indirect source. If a person transfers his

    agricultural land to another in consideration inter alia of a life annuity which is charged

    upon the land, the annual payment is not agricultural income. 5It is not rent or revenue

    derived from land; it is money payable under a contract imposing a personal liability on

    the covenantor, the discharge of which is secured by a charge on land. The covenantor is

    at liberty to make the payments out of any moneys and is bound to make them whether

    the land is sufficiently productive or not. The source of the life annuity is the covenant,

    not land. Similarly, an amount paid annually in consideration of feudal proprietors of the

    land relinquishing their claims to the land is not agricultural income, whether or not

    secured by a charge on the land, for the source of the income is not land but the covenant

    1 CIT v Kamakshya 16 ITR 325, 328 (PC).

    2 Ramchandra v CIT 10 ITR 141.

    3 CIT v Kamakshya 16 ITR 325, 328 (PC).

    4 Shighai v Uol 247 ITR 150.

    5 Gopal v CIT 3 ITR 237 (PC).

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    to pay. 1 An allowance called ' malikana ' paid by the government under a statutory

    obligation to a proprietor dispossessed of his land is not revenue derived from land, for

    the immediate and effective source of the income is the Government's statutory

    obligation to pay and not land. But compensation received for requisition of land which

    continues to be used for agricultural purposes after the requisition, is revenue derived

    from agricultural land.

    Setting at rest a conflict of opinion among Indian High Courts, the Privy Council held in

    CIT v Kamikshya Narain Singh 2 that interest on arrears of rent payable in respect of

    agricultural land is not agricultural income, for it is neither 'rent' nor 'revenue derived

    from land'. Similarly, where a zamindar obtains from defaulting tenants promissory notes

    in respect of such arrears of rent, the interest which accrues due on the promissory notes

    is not agricultural income. 3On general principles, if salami or premium paid in respect of

    tenancies or holdings is capital in character, as normally it would be, it would not be

    taxable as income under the Act, and in that case no further question would arise as to

    whether it is exempt from tax as being agricultural income. If salami or premium is

    income in nature, it would be 'revenue derived from land' where it is paid for the

    settlement of lands or abandoned holdings or for recognition of transfer of holdings.

    Similarly, jagir income received from the state government which was in the nature of

    land revenue assigned under the implied grant from the time of the British Government is

    revenue derived I from land. Mutation fees exacted from tenants upon their succeeding to

    occupancy holdings, or fees exacted for the grant of a renewal of a lease, are also revenue

    derived from land, and it is immaterial whether the executions are illegal or legally

    recoverable. Nazarana may or may not be agricultural income, it depends on the

    occasion and the purpose for which the payment is made.

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    (ii) Land situated in India : For income to be 'agricultural income' the land should

    besituated in India. This condition, like the third one mentioned below, is to be

    fulfilled not only under sub-clause (a) but also under sub-clause (b) and (c),

    since those sub-clauses refer to 'such land', i.e. the land mentioned in sub-clause

    (a). Foreign agricultural income falls outside this definition and is not entitled to

    exemption under Sec 10 (1).

    (iii) Land used for Agricultural Purposes : Whether exemption as agricultural

    income i is sought under sub-clause (a) or (b) or (c), the primary condition must be

    1 Mustafa v CIT16 ITR330, 337 (PC)

    2 16 ITR 325, followed in Ram Ran v Pwj ofBihar 17 ITR 164.

    3 Inuganti v CIT 6 ITC 63.

    4 Beohar Singh v CIT } 6 ITR 433.

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    satisfied that the land in question is used for agricultural purposes. 1 The land must

    be actually used for agricultural purposes in the accounting year; the purpose for

    which the land is leased or the purpose for which the land was used when the

    lease was originally made, is an immaterial consideration. 2

    The judgments of the Supreme Court in CIT v Benoykumar Sahas Roy 3 andthe Federal Court in Meghraj v Alia Rakhia are leading authorities on the

    connotation of agricultural land and agricultural purposes. 4

    On the question whether land is used for agricultural purposes, the Privy Council

    laid down two propositions in Mustafa Alt Khan v CIT 5: (i) no assistance is to be

    got from the meaning ascribed to the word 'agriculture' in other statutes; and (ii)

    though it must always be difficult to draw the line, yet, unless there is some

    measure of cultivation of the land, some expenditure of skill and labour upon it, it

    cannot be said to be used for agricultural purposes within the meaning of this Act.

    All courts agreed that income from the sale of forest trees, fruits and flowersgrowing on land naturally, spontaneously and without the intervention of human

    agency, is not agricultural income. But there was a conflict of judicial opinion on

    the question whether in cases where there is no tilling or cultivation of the land

    and the trees are all of spontaneous germination, regular operations in forestry to

    aid the growth of the trees would constitute agriculture. This conflict was resolved

    by the Supreme Court in CIT v Benoykumar Sahas Roy . After exhaustively

    discussing the case-law on the subject, Bhagwati J laid down in that case the

    following principles:

    (1) Some basic operation, prior to germination, involving expenditure of humanskill and labour on the land itself and not merely on the growths from the land is

    essential to constitute agriculture; illustrative instances of such basic operations

    are tilling of the land, sowing or disseminating of seeds, and planting.

    (2) Subsequent operations, i.e. operations performed after the produce sprouts

    from the land, eg weeding; digging the soil around the growth, removal of

    undesirable undergrowths, tending, pruning, cutting, felling and preservation of

    the plants from insects, pests and other animals, by themselves, would not

    constitute agriculture. But in cases where the subsequent operations are combined

    1 CIT v All India Tea 219 ITR 544 (SC).

    2 CIT v Burdhan Kuti 17 ITR 191.

    3 32 ITR 466.

    4 1942 FCR 53, AIR 1942 FC 27.

    5 16 ITR 330, 335.

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    with the .basic operations, the subsequent operations would also I constitute part

    of the integrated activity of agriculture.

    (3) Agriculture connotes not merely the raising of grain and food products for men

    and animals but also the raising of all commercial crops, eg the cultivation of a

    casuarina plantation 1, tea2, coffee 3, tobacco 4, cotton 5, sugar-cane 6, toddy-trees 7,rubber8, jute, hemp and indigo.

    (4) Activities not involving any basic operation on the land would not constitute

    agriculture merely because they have relation to or connection with the land. For

    instance, breeding and rearing of livestock, dairy farming, butter-and cheese-

    making, and poultry farming would not by themselves be agricultural purposes.

    ( B ) CLAUSE (1A)(B): INCOME FROM AGRICULTURAL P RODUCE AND

    FROM MANUFACTURING PROCESS:

    This sub-clause deals with 'income derived from such land' by the methods specified. The

    phrase 'such land' refers to land described in sub-clause(a), viz 'land which is situated in

    India and is used for agricultural purposes'. If this primary condition regarding the quality

    of the land is not satisfied, the case for bringing the income in question within the ambit of

    sub-clause (a) or (b) must fail. 9

    Sub-clause (a) refers to income derived from land which is used directly foragricultural purposes; and sub-clause (b) also covers by-products, such as the, selling of

    milk, the pasturing of cattle etc, provided the endeavour is agricultural and provided it is

    1 CIT v Sundara 18 ITR 259.

    2 MeghrajvAlla hakhia 1942 FCR 53, 62-63.

    3 CITv Mathias 7 ITR 48 (PC).

    4 CIT v Katragadda 12 ITR 1.

    5 Sheolal v CIT4 LTC 375.

    6 CIT v Ravalgaon Sugar 15 ITR 297.

    7 Yagappa v CIT2 ITC 470.

    8 SeeKalpaka Rubber v State ofKerala 232 ITR 450.

    9 Mustafa v CIT 16 ITR 330, 335 (PC).

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    reasonably connected with land used for agricultural purposes. 1 Even under sub-

    clause (b) the income must be 'derived from land'. If a farmer has cattle pastured on the

    farm and the cattle are kept solely for agricultural purposes, the income from the sale of

    milk as well as of cream and butter made on the farm would be agricultural income as

    being income 'derived from land used for agricultural purposes'. The treatment to which

    the raw material is subjected and the circumstances in which it is accorded that

    treatment, may be such that the finished article cannot be fairly regarded as a product

    of the use of the land to which the raw material owes its origin. 2

    This is further made clear by the provision in sub-clause (ii) and (iii) under which the

    process to which the agricultural produce is subjected should not be other than that

    ordinarily employed by a cultivator to render the produce it to be taken to market.

    Sub-clauses (ii) and (iii) require two conditions to be fulfilled. First, the process must be

    one which is ordinarily employed by a cultivatorit is immaterial whether the process

    is manual or whether it involves the use of machinery.3

    Secondly, the process must beemployed to render the produce it to be taken to the market. In other words, the produce

    must retain its original character in spite of the process: unless there is no market for

    selling it in that condition. 4 These clauses contemplate the marketing of the produce in

    the ordinary way and not the mere possibility of selling it; the process must be one ordinarily

    employed by the cultivators of a particular locality at the relevant time to render the produce it

    for the market.5

    ( C )EXEMPTION OF CAPITAL GAIN ON TRANSFER OF

    AGRICULTURAL LAND :

    As per Section 2 (14) (iii) of the Act :

    "Capital asset" means property of any kind held by an assessee, whether or not

    connected with his business or profession, but does not include

    1 Beohar Singh v CIT 16 ITR 433, 443.

    2 Ibid at 90-91. Cf under s 80P(2)(a)(iii).

    3 Casey v CIT4 ITC 259.

    4 CIT v Stanes Amalgamated 232 ITR 443.

    5 Parthasarathiah v CIT48 ITR 830.

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    (i) Any stock-in-trade, consumable stores or raw materials held for the purposes of

    his business or profession;

    (ii) Personal effects, that is to say, movable property (including wearing apparel and

    furniture, but excluding jewellery) held for personal use by the assessee or any

    member of his family dependent on him.

    Explanation : For the purposes of this sub-clause, "Jewellery" includes

    (a) Ornaments made of gold, silver, platinum or any other precious metal or

    any alloy containing one or more of such precious metals, whether or not

    containing any precious or semi-precious stone, and whether or not worked or

    sewn into any wearing apparel;

    (b) Precious or semi-precious stones, whether or not set in any furniture,

    utensil or other article or worked or sewn into any wearing apparel.

    And according to Section 54(B) : Capital gain on transfer of land used for agricultural

    purposes not to be charged in certain cases.

    ( D ) CLAUSE (1A)(C): AGRICULTURAL HOUSE PROPERTY :

    Income from house property is taxable under Section 22 on the basis of its bona fide

    annual value. Income from such house property as1 satisfies the conditions of this sub-

    clause would be agricultural income aid would consequently be exempt from tax. Broadly

    speaking, the main cumulative requirements of this sub-clause are:

    a) the building should be on or in the immediate vicinity of agricultural land in India1

    b) it should be occupied by the cultivator or the recipient of agricultural income

    c) the cultivator or the recipient should, by reason of his connection with the land,

    require it as a dwelling house or as a storehouse or other outbuildings2

    d) (i) the land should be assessed to land revenue in India or be subject to a local

    rate assessed and collected by officers of the Government as such; OR

    (ii) where the land is not so assessed to land revenue or to a local rate, it should

    1 Nawazish v CIT 14 ITR 356.

    2 Raju v CIT66 ITR 122.

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    not be situated within the urban areas specified in the section or their vicinity,

    notified by the Central Government. 1

    ( E ) AGRICULTURAL INCOME IS EXEMPT, HOWSOEVER AND BYWHOMSOEVER IT IS RECEIVED: AGRICULTURAL INCOME AS PART OF

    BUSINESS PROFITS :

    Income falling within the definition in this Clause would be agricultural income andexempt from tax as such, howsoever and by whomsoever it maybe received. 2 Theexemption is conferred and conferred indelibly, on a particular kind of income and doesnot depend on the character of the recipient. 3

    ( F ) NON-AGRICULTURAL INCOME DOES NOT BECOME AGRICULTURAL BYREASON OF INDIRECT CONNECTION WITH AGRICULTURAL LAND :

    As stated above, where the income falls within the definition of agricultural income it earns exemption,

    in whatever character the assessee receives it.; Conversely, as the Privy Council laid down in Premier

    Construction Co Ltd v CIT4, Where an assessee receives income, net itself of a character to fall

    within the deinition of agricultural income contained in the Act, such income does not assume the

    character of agricultural income by reason of the source from which it is derived or the method by which

    it is calculated.

    ( G ) DIVIDEND PAID BY COMPANY OUT OF AGRICULTURAL INCOME :

    The Supreme Court held in Bacha Guzdar v CIT 5 that a dividend paid by a company out of

    its agricultural income is not exempt from tax as being agricultural income in the hands of

    the shareholder. Applying the test laid down by the Privy Council in CIT v Kamakshya

    Narain Singh 6, the Supreme Court held that the immediate and effective source of the

    dividend being the shareholding and not the land, the dividend could not be said to be

    1 CIT v Bhanja Deo 111 ITR 178.

    2 CIT v Kameshwar 3 ITR 30, 308-09 (PC).

    3 Ibid.

    4 16 ITR 380, 3384.

    5 27 ITR 1, followed in Thomos v CAg IT 34 ITR 454.

    6 16 ITR 325, 328.

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    revenue or income derived from land.

    ( H ) DISINTEGRATION OF INCOME INTO AGRICULTURAL AND NON-

    AGRICULTURAL ELEMENTS :

    If an income receipt comprises both agricultural and non-agricultural elements, it should

    be disintegrated, and that portion which represents agricultural income should be

    exempted from tax. 1

    ( I ) BURDEN OF PROOF :

    The burden is on the assessee who claims exemption from tax to prove that the income in

    question is agricultural income.

    ( J ) REFERENCE TO COURT :

    The question whether a particular item of income is agricultural within the meaning of the

    statutory definition is a mixed question of fact and law. 2

    1 Cf Bomford v Osbome 23 TC 642 (HL).

    2 Beohar Singh v CIT16 ITR 433,437.

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    CONCLUSION

    In the light of the above discussion, it maybe concluded that The position under the Income-

    tax Act is that section 10(1) exempts agricultural income from income-tax. The onus lies on

    the assessee to prove whether an income is agricultural income or not. The word 'revenue'

    used in Section 2(1A)(a) should be interpreted in broadest sense to include yield or income

    and not the source of land revenue. 1 Section 2(1A)(b) stipulates there should not be any

    difference between sale of a commodity and what is cultivated and processed.

    The essence of agriculture, even when it is extended to include 'forestry', is the application

    of human skill and labour. Without that it can be neither art nor a science.

    2

    There are certain incomes which are neither wholly agricultural in nature nor can they be

    said to arise from business. On the other hand they include some elements of agriculture

    and some those of business. Profits of a sugar mill which grows its sugarcane can be cited

    as one of the examples.

    1 Durga Narain Singh v. CIT (1947) 151 ITR 235 (All.).

    2 Beohar Singh Raghubir Singh v. CIT [1948] 16 ITR 433 (Nag.).

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    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    BOOKS

    - Kanga, Palkhivala and Vyas : The Law And Practice Of Income Tax

    - Law of income tax : Kailash Rai

    - Assorted Notes : Prof. R.K Chaubey

    WEBSITES

    - www.incometaxindia.gov.in

    - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_India

    - www.taxmann.com

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