TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
Special provisions in respect of newly established Units in Special Economic Zones.
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....g deduction shall be allowed]- (i) hundred per cent of profits and gains derived from the export, of such articles or things or from services for a period of five consecutive assessment years beginning with the assessment year relevant to the previous year in which the Unit begins to manufacture or produce such articles or things or provide services, as the case may be, and fifty per cent of such profits and gains for further five assessment years and thereafter; (ii) for the next five consecutive assessment years, so much of the amount not exceeding fifty per cent of the profit as is debited to the profit and loss account of the previous year in respect of which the deduction is to be allowed and credited to a reserve account (to be ca....
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.... Direct Taxes in this behalf, under clause (b) of sub-section (1B) of section 10A have been furnished by the assessee in respect of machinery or plant along with the return of income for the assessment year relevant to the previous year in which such plant or machinery was first put to use. (3) Where any amount credited to the Special Economic Zone Re-investment Reserve Account under clause (ii) of sub-section (1),- (a) has been utilised for any purpose other than those referred to in sub-section (2), the amount so utilised; or (b) has not been utilised before the expiry of the period specified in sub-clause (i) of clause (a) of sub-section (2), the amount not so utilised, shall be deemed to be the profits,- (i) in a case referred t....
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.... previous year in which the Unit began to manufacture, or produce or process such articles or things or services in such free trade zone or export processing zone : Provided also that where a Unit initially located in any free trade zone or export processing zone is subsequently located in a Special Economic Zone by reason of conversion of such free trade zone or export processing zone into a Special Economic Zone and has completed the period of ten consecutive assessment years referred to above, it shall not be eligible for deduction from income as provided in clause (ii) of sub-section (1) with effect from the 1st day of April, 2006. 2[(4) This section applies to any undertaking, being the Unit, which fulfils all the following condition....
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....sed under any law for the time being in force for regulating payments and dealings in foreign exchange. Explanation 2.-The sale of goods or provision of services shall be deemed to have been received in India where such export turnover is credited to a separate account maintained for that purpose by the assessee with any bank outside India with the approval of the Reserve Bank of India.] (5) Where any undertaking being the Unit which is entitled to the deduction under this section is transferred, before the expiry of the period specified in this section, to another undertaking, being the Unit in a scheme of amalgamation or demerger,- (a) no deduction shall be admissible under this section to the amalgamating or the demerged Unit, being ....
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....ertaking, being the Unit" had been substituted. (9) The provisions of sub-section (8) and sub-section (10) of section 80-IA shall, so far as may be, apply in relation to the undertaking referred to in this section as they apply for the purposes of the undertaking referred to in section 80-IA. 5[(10) Where a deduction under this section is claimed and allowed in respect of profits of any of the specified business, referred to in clause (c) of sub-section (8) of section 35AD, for any assessment year, no deduction shall be allowed under the provisions of section 35AD in relation to such specified business for the same or any other assessment year.] Explanation 1.-For the purposes of this section,- 10[(i) "convertible foreign exchange" sha....
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....pment of software) outside India shall be deemed to be the profits and gains derived from the export of computer software outside India.] ****************** NOTES:- 1. Inserted vide Second Schedule of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 w.e.f. 10-02-2006 2. Substituted vide Section 7 of the Finance Act, 2007 w.e.f. 10-02-2006 before it was read as, "(4) This section applies to any undertaking being the Unit, which has begun or begins to manufacture or produce articles or things or services during the previous year relevant to the assessment year commencing on or after the 1st day of April, 2006, in any Special Economic Zone." 3. Substituted vide Section 6 of the Finance ....