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Agricultural income or not - Profit from the sale of Jaggery - ...


Debate on Tax Status of Jaggery Sales: Are Profits Agricultural Income? Potential Revenue Loss Concerns for Government.

June 30, 2021

Case Laws     Income Tax     HC

Agricultural income or not - Profit from the sale of Jaggery - As also seen that though manufacturing of jaggery can be done by a small scale by a group of farmers by extracting juice from fresh sugarcane which is filtered and boiled in wide yellow shallow iron pans with continuous stirring and also adding soda or other similar chemicals to get the jaggery, it is evident that the process of converting sugarcane into jaggery is not an essential one to make sugarcane marketable and there is more profit in making it as jaggery and selling. If the exemption of agricultural income is extended to the sale of jaggery, it would only facilitate many agriculturists to claim this exemption and carrying revenue loss to the exchequer. - HC

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