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Comparison of Section 48 "Tea development account, coffee development account and rubber development account" between the Income-Tax Act, 2025 (as passed) and the Income-Tax Bill, 2025 (as originally introduced)
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....evant schemes. It matters to taxpayers engaged in growing and manufacturing tea, coffee or rubber in India, and to the tax department administering deductions and recapture. Effective dates or enactment timing are Not stated in the document. Background & Scope Statutory hook: Clause 48 sits within the chapter on "Profits and gains of business or profession" in the Income Tax Bill, 2025 - that is, it addresses deductible deposits and subsequent chargeability to tax for certain primary-sector activities. The clause ties deductibility and recapture to "the provisions of the Schedule IX" (repeatedly). The text provides limited definitional content: it identifies the relevant taxpayers as "an assessee ... carrying on business of growing and m....
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....or otherwise transferred and shall accordingly be chargeable to income-tax as the income of that tax year." Interpretation The clause establishes a regime of initial tax relief (deduction for qualifying deposits) followed by a recapture mechanism to neutralise tax benefit where withdrawals occur or assets are disposed of within a specified protective period. Legislative intent, as inferable from the text, is to incentivise deposits into sector-specific development accounts while preventing permanent tax avoidance by recapturing benefit on early withdrawal or premature disposal of assets acquired using those amounts. The explicit eight-year recapture period in sub-section (3) signals a policy choice to protect the revenue over a medium-ter....
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....culated for part disposals, or treatment on sale to related parties; therefore specifics on such illustrations are Not stated in the document. Interplay The clause repeatedly instructs that computation and chargeability are "as per the provisions of the Schedule IX." Therefore, detailed operational rules, calculation formulae, timings, compliance processes and potentially definitions are deferred to Schedule IX. No other Rules/Notifications/Circulars are mentioned in the reproduced text. Interaction with general anti-avoidance provisions, transfer pricing provisions, or other parts of the tax code is Not stated in the document. Differences between Section 48 of the Income-tax Act, 2025 and Clause 48 of the Income Tax Bill, 2025 (Old Vers....
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....cheme is sold/transferred within eight years from the end of the tax year in which it was acquired, "such part of the cost of such asset as is relatable to the deduction allowed under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be the profits and gains of business or profession" of the year of sale and charged accordingly. Section 48(3) (Act) is shorter and states that where any asset acquired as per the special scheme or deposit scheme is sold or otherwise transferred in any tax year, it "shall be charged to tax in accordance with the provisions of the said Schedule" (no eight-year period; no deeming of a relatable part of cost). * Practical impact: The Bill imposes a specific recapture window (8 years) and a deemed income mechanism that clearly ....
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....laim deductions under Clause 48 need to monitor withdrawals and the holding period of assets acquired under the scheme closely to determine recapture liabilities. The eight-year window imposes a medium-term compliance risk-early disposals create immediate tax charges under the deeming rule. The specific calculation of the "part of the cost ... relatable to the deduction" will be determinative; practitioners must consult Schedule IX for the precise methodology. Failure to follow the Schedule IX computation or to account for transfers/withdrawals in the year of event would expose taxpayers to assessments and interest/penalties (penalties/interest provisions Not stated in the document). * Record-keeping/evidence points: The clause implies th....