Rule 271 treats income from the sale of specified rubber, coffee and tea products as business income of which a fixed percentage is taxable — 35% for the listed rubber products, 25% for cured coffee, 40% for roasted and ground coffee and 40% for tea — with an allowance for replanting.
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Rules 2026 · Rule 271
Income from manufacture of rubber, coffee and tea
Rules 261-310
The percentages (sub-rule 1).
Replanting and subsidies (sub-rules 2 and 3). An allowance is made for the cost of planting rubber plants, coffee plants and tea bushes in replacement of those that have died or become permanently useless in an area already planted, if the area has not previously been abandoned. In arriving at that cost, no deduction is made for a subsidy not includible in total income under the provision in Schedule III [Table: Sl. No. 21].
Definition (sub-rule 4). "Curing" is as in section 3(d) of the Coffee Act, 1942.