Judgment :- 1. This is a reference by the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, Madras Bench, under S.66 (1) of the Indian Income tax Act, 1922. The assessment year with which we are concerned is 1958-59 and the accounting period is the 12 months ended 3112 1957. 2. The assessee the Karimtharuvi Tea Estates Limited purchased the Penshurst Tea Estate from the Penshurst Tea Estates Limited. The purchase came into effect on 111957 in pursuance of an agreement dated 17121956. 3. The agreement forms Annexure F to the Statement of the Case. Clause.1 of the agreement provided for a "price or consideration of Rs. 4,50,000/-" and Clause.8 stipulated that: "all dues determined up to the time the sale takes effect, as legally due to labour, staff and Superintendent in respect of service up till then (including bonus for 1956 (1) in the case of Labour as recommended by the A. P. T. before the end of February 1957 and (2) in the case of staff and the Superintendent three months' basic salary) shall be borne by the vendor; and all dues (including any extra bonus or other benefits or additional benefits) that may be determined after the time the sale takes effect to be payable to labour, staff and the Superintendent whether in respect of service under the Vendor or in respect of service under the Purchaser shall be paid by the Purchaser." 4. A sum of Rs. 11,621/77 was paid by the assessee during the accounting period to the labourers of the Estate as bonus for their services under the vendor in pursuance of the undertaking embodied in the latter portion of the extract given above. The question for consideration is whether the said sum represents a "capital expenditure" as contended by the department and held by the Tribunal. 5. An initial outlay for the initiation of a business is normally treated as an expenditure in the nature of a capital expenditure, and we see no reason to depart from that rule in this case. The undertaking embodied in Clause.8 and in pursuance of which the assessee made the payment is apparently part and parcel of the consideration for the sale, in other words, an expenditure in the nature of a capital expenditure or an expenditure, not deductible under S.10 (2) (xv) of the Indian Income tax Act, 1922. 6. The undertaking embodied in Clause.8 and in pursuance of which the assessee made the payment is apparently part and parcel of the consideration for the sale, in other words, an expenditure in the nature of a capital expenditure or an expenditure, not deductible under S.10 (2) (xv) of the Indian Income tax Act, 1922. 6. An instructive decision on the point is the decision of the House of Lords in Royal Insurance Co. v. Watson (66 L. J. Q. B. 1). The head note gives an adequate summary: "Where a trading company in purchasing the business of another company agrees to take depart into its service the manager of the purchased company at a fixed salary, or if they dismiss him to pay him a stipulated sum, & the purchasing company take the manager into their service, but shortly afterwards dismiss him and pay the agreed sum, the money so paid is capital and not income, and forms part of the purchase-money of the business acquired, and cannot therefore be deducted from the gross income of the year in which it is paid in calculating the amount assessable to income tax." 7. Counsel for the assessee invited our attention to Associated Printers (Madras) Private Limited v. Commissioner of Income-tax, Madras (43 ITR. 281). The payment in that case was not part of the purchase price or in discharge of any liability of the transferee under the contract of transfer. The following extract makes the position clear: "The payment made in discharge of a contractual liability imposed in express terms by the contract of transfer or sale and equated to payment in part of the purchase price is laid out to complete the purchase and to discharge the purchaser's liability. The principle applicable to such payments, that they constitute expenditure of a capital nature, cannot be extended to a case like the present, where the liability devolved on the assessee company by operation of law. That liability itself accrued only after the transfer, that is, the liability under the award and the subsequent liability under the agreement between the workmen and the assessee company. As we have pointed out, factually the discharge of that liability was not part of the contract of transfer, and the payment of bonus was not part of the purchase price. The discharge of the legal obligation was not part of the contract of transfer." 8. As we have pointed out, factually the discharge of that liability was not part of the contract of transfer, and the payment of bonus was not part of the purchase price. The discharge of the legal obligation was not part of the contract of transfer." 8. In the view we take that the undertaking in pursuance of which the payment was made by the assessee was part of the consideration for the agreement of 17121956 we must hold that the first question referred "Whether the sum of Rs. 11,621/77 paid as additional bonus for the years 1955 and 1956 to the workers of the Penshurt Estate under a conciliation settlement dated the 19th May, 1957, and incurred in the year of account ought to have been allowed as a revenue expenditure?". has to be answered in the negative and against the assessee. We do so. 9. The second question referred is: "Whether it was incurred wholly and exclusively for the purpose of the business and as such, was allowable as a business expense?". In the light of the answer we have given to question No. 1, this question does not arise for consideration and is not considered in this judgment. 10. The reference is answered as above. The assessee will pay the costs of the department, advocate's fee Rs. 100/-. 11. A copy of this judgment under the seal of the High Court and the signature of the Registrar will be forwarded to the Appellate Tribunal as required by sub-section [5] of S.66 of the Indian Income-Act tax Act, 1922.