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Rules 2026 · Rule 271

Income from manufacture of rubber, coffee and tea

Rules 261-310

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.

The percentages (sub-rule 1).

Income from sale ofPercentage deemed liable to tax
Centrifuged latex, cenex, latex-based crepes, brown crepes or technically specified block rubbers made from field latex or coagulum from rubber plants the seller grew in India35%
Coffee grown and cured by the seller in India25%
Coffee grown, cured, roasted and ground by the seller in India, with or without chicory or other flavouring40%
Tea grown and manufactured by the seller in India40%

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.