Concessional tax regime for new manufacturing companies: elective, time limited option with fixed-rate treatments and strict eligibility.
An elective concessional tax regime permits domestic manufacturing companies to compute tax under a standalone scheme with fixed tax treatments for defined income categories and specified exclusions. Eligibility hinges on incorporation/registration and commencement temporal thresholds, timely exercise of the option which, once exercised, is irrevocable and continues for subsequent years. Failure to meet conditions invalidates the option prospectively. Computation is constrained by sub-section rules that exclude certain deductions and bar set-off of losses or unabsorbed depreciation attributable to excluded deductions, while cross-references determine treatment of capital gains and deemed incomes.