Section 10B historically allowed approved 100% export-oriented undertakings a deduction of export profits for 10 consecutive assessment years from commencement of manufacture or production. Eligibility required timely return filing, audit, export-proceeds repatriation within six months, and formation without reconstruction of an existing business or transfer of previously used plant or machinery. The deduction was unavailable from assessment year 2012-13. Software development services performed outside India were treated as export profits, and restructuring rules preserved the available deduction with the successor entity.
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