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- Section 60 (1) - Agricultural Income-tax Act, 1950 CASE REFERRED TO Commissioner of Income-tax v. Isthmian Steamship Lines [1951] 20 ITR 572 (SC). JUDGMENT 1. This is a reference under section 60(1) of the Agricultural Income-tax Act, 1950, by the Kerala Agricultural Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, Trivandrum. The accounting period with which we are concerned is the year ended December 31, 1956, and the assessment year is the financial year 1957-58. Two questions have been referred to this court for decision. They are ; "(i)Whether the amount realised by the sale of gravelia firewood is a revenue receipt liable to tax under the Kerala Agricultural Income-tax Act? (ii)Whether any surcharge can be levied on the agricultural income-tax payable for the assessment year 1957-58 ?" 2. The gravelia trees were grown and maintained for the sole purpose of providing shade to the tea bushes in the tea estates of the assessee. That such shade is essential for the proper cultivation of tea cannot be disputed ; and the trees should hence be considered to be as much a part of the capital assets of the company as the tea bushes themselves or the equipment in its factories. Some of the gravelia trees became old and useless with the efflux of time and they naturally had to be…

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