Commr. Of Agrl. I.T. vs Pullangode Rubber & Produce Co. Ltd. on 30 August, 1968
5. The crux of the reasoning of the Appellate Tribunal to hold that the said amount of Rs. 3,95,229 did not-constitute receipt by way of income in the hands of the assessee was that the business of the assessee consists in growing rubber trees and utilising the latex from the trees and not the sale of rubber trees, and as per the decision of the Supreme Court in Commr. of Agrl. I.T. v. Kailas Rubber and Co. Ltd. [1966] 60 ITR 435, the sale of old and unyielding rubber trees would result in a capital receipt in the hands of the seller, and, in this background, amounts received by way of earnest money and advance towards the sale price to be adjusted as and when the contracts were concluded cannot be said to be amounts received by the assessee as trading receipts. At the time when the amounts were received, they were not trading receipts and the mere fact that, by a subsequent event, namely, by the breach of the contract, the assessee could appropriate the amount would not render the receipts as revenue receipts.