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Costing and Taxation · Ch 6 — Agricultural Income

Terms Introduced in the Chapter

Terms Introduced in the Chapter

This section collects, in one place, every term and rule introduced in this chapter, for quick refer …

Definition 1Agricultural Income [Section 2(1A)]

Income covered by one of three limbs: (a) rent/revenue from land in India used for agriculture; (b) income from agricultural operations or from processing/selling the produce by a method ordinarily employed by a cultivator; (c) income from …

Definition 2Exemption under Section 10(1)

Agricultural income is wholly exempt from Central income tax, because the Constitution (Entry 46, List II, Seventh Schedule) gives the power to tax it to State …

Definition 3Composite Business (Growing + Manufacturing)

A business that both grows a crop (agriculture) and manufactures it into a marketable product (business) in one integrated operation, requiring the income to be apportioned between agricultural (exem …

Definition 4Rule 8 — Tea

Income from tea grown and manufactured by the seller in India: 60% agricultural (exempt), 40% bu …

Definition 5Rule 7B(1) — Coffee grown and cured only

Income from coffee grown and cured (not roasted/ground) by the seller in India: 75% agricultural (exempt), 25% …

Definition 6Rule 7B(1A) — Coffee grown, cured, roasted and ground

Income from coffee grown, cured, roasted and ground (with or without chicory) by the seller in India: 60% agricultural (exempt), …

Definition 7Rule 7 (general principle, not numerically tested here)

For a composite business not covered by a specific rule, the market value of the agricultural produce used as raw material is treated as agricultural income; the balance is busine …