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Issues: Whether interest accruing on compulsory deposits under the Compulsory Deposit Scheme (Income-tax Payers) Act, 1974 is taxable as interest income or is to be treated as compensation and, therefore, a capital receipt.
Analysis: The statutory scheme treated the return on compulsory deposits as interest and linked it to the prescribed rate, leaving no real scope to recast the receipt as compensation. The Court held that the compulsory deposit scheme was not so absolute that the depositor had no choice at all, because non-payment exposed the assessee only to statutory consequences. It further held that where the Legislature expressly characterises a receipt as interest, the plain language must prevail and the receipt takes its legal character from the statute. The authorities relied upon by the assessee were held distinguishable, and the distinction between compensation for deprivation and interest on a statutory return was rejected on the facts and the wording of the scheme.
Conclusion: The receipt was taxable as interest income and not as compensation or a capital receipt.
Final Conclusion: The appeals failed, and the addition made by the departmental authorities was sustained.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a statute expressly deems a return on a compulsory deposit to be interest, that receipt is taxable as interest income and cannot be recharacterised as compensation merely because the deposit is statutorily imposed.
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