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SECTION 46
SPECIFIED BUSINESSES
Income-tax Act, 2025 | Capital Expenditure of Specified Business (Old Section 35AD)
"Visual Revision Notes for CA Students"
❄️
Cold Chain
🌾
Agri Warehouse
🍬
Sugar Warehouse
🛢️
Gas / Oil Pipeline
⛏️
Iron Ore Slurry
🏨
2★ Hotel
🏥
100-Bed Hospital
🏘️
Slum Redevelopment
🏠
Affordable Housing
🌱
Fertilizer Unit
🐝
Bee-Keeping
📦
ICD / CFS
💻
Semiconductor Fab
🌉
Infrastructure Facility
🎯
14 Businesses
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NOTEBOOK Pages
2 The Big Picture — Mind Map
All 14 specified businesses grouped into 5 memory clusters
SECTION 46
SPECIFIED BUSINESS
100% Capital Expenditure Deduction
❄️ STORAGE & WAREHOUSING 🛢️ PIPELINES
❄️ Cold Chain Facility 🛢️ Natural Gas / Crude Oil / Petroleum Pipeline
🌾 Agricultural Produce Warehouse ⛏️ Slurry Pipeline for Iron Ore
🍬 Sugar Warehouse
🏨 BUILDINGS & HOUSING 🌱 AGRICULTURE & PRODUCTION
🏨 Hotel (2★ or above) 🌱 Fertilizer Production
🏥 Hospital (100+ beds) 🐝 Bee-keeping, Honey & Beeswax
🏘️ Slum Redevelopment Housing
🏠 Affordable Housing
📦 LOGISTICS & TECHNOLOGY
📦 Container Freight Station / ICD 💻 Semiconductor Wafer Fab Unit 🌉 New Infrastructure Facility
🧠 MEMORY TIP: 5 clusters = 5 fingers on one hand. Storage (thumb) → Pipelines (index) → Buildings (middle) → Agri (ring) →
Logistics/Tech (pinky).
📜 Deduction: 100% of capital expenditure (revenue
expenditure covered separately under normal provisions).
🔒 Lock-in: Asset must be used only for specified business for
8 years.
🚫 No double dip: No deduction under Chapter VIII-C if claimed
here.
💵 Cash curb: Payments > ₹ 10,000/day otherwise than by
bank/online mode — disallowed.
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3 Storage & Warehousing
❄️ 🌾 🍬
Cluster 1 of 5 • Keep, Chill, Store
SCIENTIFIC COOLING SILO STORAGE SWEET STORAGE
1. Cold Chain Facility 2. Agricultural Produce 3. Sugar Warehouse
🧊 Warehouse 🍬
🌾
"Freeze it before you lose it" "Sugar needs shelter too"
▸ Chain of facilities for storage/transport of "Harvest today, house it tomorrow" ▸ Setting up and operating a warehousing
agri & forest produce, meat, poultry, ▸ Setting up and operating a warehousing facility for storage of sugar.
marine & dairy products, horticulture, facility for storage of agricultural produce. ▸ Commencement of operations on/after 1-
floriculture & apiculture products, and ▸ Post-harvest storage infrastructure — Apr-2012.
processed food. reduces wastage of farm produce. ▸ Distinct entry from the general agri-
▸ Must operate under scientifically ▸ Covered under general date 1-Apr-2009. warehouse — sugar gets its own dated
controlled conditions incl. refrigeration. slot.
▸ Effective from operations commencing
on/after 1-Apr-2009 (general "all other
cases" date).
Refrigeration Perishables Meat/Dairy Warehouse Agri Produce Storage Sugar Warehouse 2012
⚡ QUICK RECALL: All three are "STORE-IT" businesses. Cold Chain = scientific/refrigerated. Agri Warehouse = general farm
produce. Sugar Warehouse = specifically sugar, dated 2012.
📝 One-line Exam Points:
▸ Deduction = 100% of capital expenditure incurred wholly & exclusively for the specified business in the year incurred.
▸ Pre-commencement capital expenditure capitalised in books on date of commencement is allowed in the year of commencement.
▸ Land, goodwill, and financial instruments are always excluded from "capital expenditure" — even for storage businesses.
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4 Pipelines
🛢️ ⛏️
Cluster 2 of 5 • Long pipes, long deductions
ENERGY FLOW MINERAL FLOW
1. Natural Gas / Crude Oil / Petroleum Pipeline 2. Slurry Pipeline for Iron Ore
🔥 "Fuel flows through the veins of India" ⛏️ "Ore turned to slurry, flowing in a hurry"
▸ Laying & operating a cross-country pipeline network for ▸ Laying & operating a slurry pipeline for transportation of iron ore.
gas/crude/petroleum, including storage facilities integral to the ▸ Commencement date: 1-Apr-2014.
network. ▸ No special PNGRB/common-carrier condition — that condition is
▸ Commencement date: 1-Apr-2007 (earliest of all specified unique to the gas/oil pipeline.
businesses).
▸ Special conditions apply: must be owned by an Indian
company/consortium/statutory authority, approved by PNGRB, and
must open a prescribed % of capacity as a common carrier for
other users.
PNGRB Approved Common Carrier 2007 Iron Ore Slurry 2014
⚖️ COMPARISON TABLE
Feature Gas / Crude / Petroleum Pipeline Iron Ore Slurry Pipeline
Commences on/after 1 April 2007 1 April 2014
Regulator approval PNGRB approval required Not required
Common-carrier condition Yes — prescribed % open to others No such condition
Ownership condition Indian company/consortium/statutory body No specific condition
Storage facilities included? Yes, if integral to the network Not specified
🧠 MEMORY CUE: "GOP" pipeline (Gas-Oil-Petroleum) = the one with strict PNGRB rules. Iron ore slurry = the simple, rule-light
cousin.
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5 Hotel & Hospital
🏨 🏥
Cluster 3 of 5 • Rest & Recovery Buildings
Building & Operating a New Hotel Building & Operating a New Hospital
★★ 2-STAR OR ABOVE 🛏️ 100 BEDS
🛏️ "Two stars light the way to deduction" 🏥 "A hundred beds, a hundred cures"
▸ Must be classified 2-star or above by the Central Government, built ▸ Must have at least 100 beds for patients, built anywhere in India.
anywhere in India. ▸ Commencement date: 1-Apr-2010 — same year as the hotel!
▸ Commencement date: 1-Apr-2010. ▸ No star/grading system here — the trigger is purely the bed count.
▸ Special rule: If assessee builds the hotel but later transfers only its
operation to another person while retaining ownership, assessee is
still deemed to carry on the specified business.
2★ + Anywhere in India 2010 100+ Beds Anywhere in India 2010
🧠 MEMORY BOX: Hotel & Hospital are "twins born in 2010" — both need a number to qualify: Hotel needs STARS (2★), Hospital
needs BEDS (100).
🏨 Hotel = QUALITY test (star classification by Central Govt.) 🏥 Hospital = CAPACITY test (minimum bed count)
📝 Exam Alert:
▸ Both are "in all other cases" upgrades from the default 2009 date — they specifically start from 2010.
▸ Location condition "anywhere in India" is expressly stated only for hotel and hospital among the definitions.
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6 Housing Projects
🏘️ 🏠
Cluster 3 of 5 (continued) • Building Homes, Building Hope
1. Slum Redevelopment / Rehabilitation Housing 2. Affordable Housing Project
🏘️ "From slum to sunshine" 🏠 "A roof everyone can afford"
▸ Developing & building a housing project under a slum ▸ Developing & building a housing project under an affordable
redevelopment/rehabilitation scheme framed by Central/State housing scheme framed by Central/State Govt.
Govt. ▸ Also must be notified by the Board per prescribed guidelines.
▸ Project must be notified by the Board as per prescribed guidelines. ▸ Commencement date: 1-Apr-2011 — one year after slum
▸ Commencement date: 1-Apr-2010. redevelopment.
Slum Scheme Board Notified 2010 Affordable Scheme Board Notified 2011
🏚️ 🏘️🏠
🔄 BEFORE → AFTER
Slum / Unaffordable Land
➡️ Redeveloped / Affordable Housing
🧠 MEMORY CUE: "SLUM before AFFORDABLE" — Slum Redevelopment (2010) comes first, Affordable Housing (2011) comes
second. Both need Board notification — think "Government stamp of approval" for both.
Feature Slum Redevelopment Feature Affordable Housing
Scheme by Central/State Govt. Scheme by Central/State Govt.
Notified by Board Notified by Board
Date 1-Apr-2010 Date 1-Apr-2011
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7 Fertilizer & Bee-Keeping
🌱 🐝
Cluster 4 of 5 • From Soil to Sweetness
1. Fertilizer Production 2. Bee-Keeping, Honey & Beeswax
🌱 "Feed the soil, feed the nation" 🐝 "Busy bees, sweet deduction"
▸ A new plant OR a newly installed capacity in an existing plant for ▸ Bee-keeping and production of honey and beeswax.
production of fertilizer in India. ▸ Commencement date: 1-Apr-2012 — same year as ICD/CFS and
▸ Commencement date: 1-Apr-2011. sugar warehouse.
▸ Note: expansion of an existing plant (new capacity) also qualifies — ▸ One of the smallest-scale businesses on this list, yet fully eligible for
not only brand-new plants. 100% capital deduction.
New Plant New Capacity 2011 Honey Beeswax 2012
🧠 MEMORY CUE: "FARMER FEEDS, BEE FLIES" — Fertilizer feeds crops (2011), Bees fly around crops making honey (2012).
Nature-linked businesses, one year apart.
🌿 Story Snapshot:
Picture a farmer spreading fertilizer on his field in 2011. A year later in 2012, bees arrive, pollinate the blooming crop, and a nearby
bee-keeper harvests honey and beeswax. Two nature-linked specified businesses, connected by one growing season.
🌱 Fertilizer → New plant / new capacity → 2011 🐝 Bee-keeping → Honey + Beeswax → 2012
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8 Container Depot, Semiconductor & Infrastructure
📦 💻 🌉
Cluster 5 of 5 • Logistics & Technology
1. ICD / Container Freight 2. Semiconductor Wafer Fab 3. New Infrastructure Facility
Station Unit 🌉
📦 💻
"Roads, ports & pipes of progress"
"Boxes rest before they travel" "Tiny chips, big deduction" ▸ Developing, or operating & maintaining, or
▸ Setting up & operating an Inland ▸ Setting up & operating a semi-conductor developing + operating + maintaining, any
Container Depot (ICD) or Container wafer fabrication manufacturing unit. new infrastructure facility.
Freight Station (CFS). ▸ Must be notified by the Board per ▸ Defined as: road (incl. toll road), bridge,
▸ Must be notified or approved under the prescribed guidelines. rail system; highway project; water
Customs Act, 1962. ▸ Commencement date: 1-Apr-2014 — supply/treatment, irrigation,
▸ Commencement date: 1-Apr-2012. same year as iron ore slurry pipeline. sanitation/sewerage or solid waste
management system; port, airport, inland
waterway, inland port, or sea navigational
channel.
▸ Commencement date: 1-Apr-2017 — the
latest date in the whole list.
▸ If carried on by a
company/consortium/statutory body, must
have an agreement with Govt./local
authority for
developing/operating/maintaining the
facility.
Customs Act ICD/CFS 2012 Board Notified Chip Fab 2014 Roads/Ports/Rail Govt. Agreement 2017
🧠 MEMORY CUE: "CONTAINER → CHIP → CONCRETE" — Container depot (2012, logistics) → Semiconductor chip (2014,
technology) → Concrete infrastructure (2017, nation-building) — a rising timeline of India's growth story.
📝 Exam Alert:
▸ Infrastructure facility has the latest commencement date (2017) among all 14 businesses — often tested as a "trick date".
▸ Both semiconductor fab and infrastructure facility require Board notification/agreement conditions — don't confuse the two conditions.
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9 The Complete Memory Story
Walk the journey once — remember all 14 businesses forever
A CA student starts the day cold (Cold Chain Facility ❄️), walks past a farm to store the harvest in an agricultural warehouse 🌾,
follows a pipeline 🛢️ into town, checks into a hotel 🏨, visits a hospital 🏥 next door, then tours new housing projects 🏘️🏠,
stops at a field being sprayed with fertilizer 🌱, watches boxes move through a container depot 📦, spots bees 🐝 buzzing
nearby, passes a sugar warehouse 🍬, crosses a slurry pipeline ⛏️ carrying iron ore, visits a semiconductor fab 💻, and ends
the day admiring new infrastructure 🌉 — a bridge lit up at sunset.
❄️ Cold ➡️ 🌾 Agri ➡️ 🛢️ Pipeline ➡️ 🏨 Hotel ➡️ 🏥 Hospital ➡️ 🏘️ Housing
➡️ 🌱 Fertilizer ➡️ 📦 Container ➡️ 🐝 Bees ➡️ 🍬 Sugar ➡️ ⛏️ Slurry ➡️
💻 Semiconductor ➡️ 🌉 Infrastructure
MEMORY SENTENCE
"Cold Agriculturists Pipeline to Hotels, Hospitals and Houses;
Farmers make Fertilizer, Containers carry Honey, Sugar, Slurry, Semiconductors to Infrastructure."
🎬 Scene 1 (Storage): Cold → Agri Warehouse → Sugar
Warehouse
🎬 Scene 2 (Flow): Gas/Oil Pipeline → Iron Ore Slurry Pipeline
🎬 Scene 3 (Stay & Heal): Hotel → Hospital → Slum Housing →
Affordable Housing
🎬 Scene 4 (Nature): Fertilizer → Bee-keeping
🎬 Scene 5 (Future): Container Depot → Semiconductor Fab → Infrastructure Facility
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⏱ 2-MINUTE REVISION
SECTION 46 — ULTIMATE REVISION SHEET
❄️ 🌾 🛢️ 🏨 🏥 🏘️ 🏠
🌱 📦 🐝 🍬 ⛏️ 💻 🌉
Cold Chain Agri Warehouse Gas/Oil Pipe Hotel 2★+ Hospital 100+ Slum Housing Affordable Housing
Fertilizer ICD/CFS Bee-keeping Sugar Warehouse Iron Ore Slurry Semiconductor Fab Infrastructure
MEMORY SENTENCE
"Cold Agriculturists Pipeline to Hotels, Hospitals and Houses; Farmers make Fertilizer, Containers carry Honey, Sugar, Slurry,
Semiconductors to Infrastructure."
📜 DEDUCTION FLOWCHART 🚫 EXCLUSIONS FROM CAPITAL EXP.
Capital Exp. incurred ➜ Wholly & exclusively for specified business ➜ 100% ❌ Cash payment > ₹10,000/day (non-bank/online mode)
deduction in year incurred (or year of commencement, if pre-commenced & ❌ Land, goodwill, or financial instrument
capitalised) ➜ No deduction elsewhere/again ➜ Asset locked for 8 years. ❌ Split-up/reconstruction of existing business
❌ Transfer of already-used machinery (>20% of total value)
🗓️ 2007
Gas/Oil/Petroleum Pipeline
🗓️ 2009 (default)
Cold Chain, Agri Warehouse — "all other cases"
🗓️ 2010
Hotel, Hospital, Slum Housing
🗓️ 2011
Affordable Housing, Fertilizer
🗓️ 2012
ICD/CFS, Bee-keeping, Sugar Warehouse
🗓️ 2014 / 2017
Iron Ore Slurry & Semiconductor (2014) /
Infrastructure (2017)
✅ 100% capital exp. deduction | ✅ 8-year lock-in on asset use | ✅ No double deduction (Ch. VIII-C or elsewhere) | ✅ Sick company exception to
lock-in withdrawal | ✅ Imported never-used-in-India machinery is NOT "previously used"
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