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Issues: Whether admission fees received from members and their authorised assistants or agents constituted taxable income in the assessee's hands, and whether the assessee could claim exemption on the footing of mutuality.
Analysis: The decisive test for mutuality is complete identity between those who contribute to the common fund and those who participate in the surplus. The assessee was a share-capital company carrying on the business of a stock exchange, with dividends payable on shares and receipts derived not only from members but also from authorised assistants and agents for the same privileges and facilities. The surplus, if any, was not confined to contributors as a class but could ultimately inure to shareholders who were distinct from the persons paying the admission fees. The receipts were also recurring whenever new members or authorised persons were enrolled, and therefore bore the character of business receipts rather than a one-time capital accretion. There was no basis to treat the sums as remuneration for specific services within the special deeming provision.
Conclusion: The admission fees were taxable income and were not exempt as mutual receipts; the question was answered in the affirmative, in favour of the Revenue.
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