Section 80IB(4) of the Income Tax Act
Income-tax Act, 2025: s.141
Section 80IB(4) falls under section 80IB of the Income-tax Act, 1961, which corresponds to section 141 (Deduction in respect of profits and gains from certain industrial undertakings) of the Income-tax Act, 2025.
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Correspondence checked against the ICAI tabular mapping of the two Acts and the BharatTax.co section commentary.
The decision most relied on for Section 80IB(4) is IPCA Laboratories Ltd. v. DCIT (266 ITR 521), cited in 122 of the 30 judgments on BharatTax that turn on this section.
Leading authorities on Section 80IB(4)
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