1998 (1) TMI 14

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....e instance of the assessee and another is at the instance of the Department. At the instance of the assessee, the Tribunal has referred the following question of law under section 27(1) of the Wealth-tax Act, 1957, for our consideration : "Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the entire coffee and tea bushes fall within the expression 'growing crops' in section 5(1)(viiia)....

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....ngaswamy v. CWT [1996] 221 ITR 39 and R. M. Perianna Pillai (Decd.) v. CWT [1996] 221 ITR 122, wherein this court held that the entire coffee and tea bushes, apart from the two leaves and a bud of the tea bush and the berries of the coffee bush, do not fall within the expression "growing crops" for exemption under section 5(1)(viiia) of the Wealth-tax Act, 1957. Following the decisions of this cou....