GMP Technical Solutions Pvt. Ltd. vs DCIT

Parties Involved

Facts Summary

GMP Technical Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a private limited company engaged in the manufacturing of Cleanroom partitions, doors, Cleanroom equipment, and fire-rated doors. The company has a manufacturing unit at Baddi in Himachal Pradesh, which is eligible for claiming benefits under Section 80IC of the Income Tax Act. The assessee filed a return of income claiming a deduction under Section 80IC of eligible unit at ₹ 4.47 crore, 30% of which was ₹ 1.60 crore. The assessing officer disallowed certain items of eligible income, including insurance claims, penalty on vendors, provisions for doubtful debts, and provision for advance to sundry creditors, aggregating to ₹ 87,22,463. The assessee appealed against the order of the Commissioner of Income-tax (Appeals) dated 25.07.2025 for Assessment Year (AY) 2014-15, raising several grounds of appeal.…

Legal Issues

• 1. Ground 1 - On the facts and in the circumstances of the case and in law, the Learned Commissioner of Income-tax (Appeals) [“Ld. CIT(A)"] erred in upholding the assessment order passed under Section 143(3) in toto without appreciating the detailed submissions, documentary evidences and legal positions placed on record.
• 2. Ground 2- On facts and circumstances of the case and in law, the Ld. CIT(A) erred in upholding the reduction of the eligible profits of the Baddi Unit by INR 87,22,463 (comprising of insurance claim INR 13,62,038; penalty on vendors INR 5,13,538; provision for doubtful debts INR 47,30,545; provision for advance to sundry creditors INR 21,16,342), and consequently restricting the deduction under Section 80-IC to INR 1,34,29,388 as against the claim of INR 1,60,46,127.
• 3. Ground 3- On facts and circumstances of the case and in law, the Ld. CIT(A) erred in treating insurance claim and loading/ unloading recovery which are pure pass-through reimbursements recovered from customers in the ordinary course of eligible manufacturing operations as "not derived from" the eligible undertaking, and in excluding the same from eligible profits.
• 4. Ground 4 - On facts and circumstances of the case and in law, the Ld. CIT(A) failed to appreciate that "Penalty on vendors/ customers" represented operational recoveries on account of delayed/ defective supplies intimately connected with the procurement and production cycle of the eligible unit and hence form part of business profits "derived from" the undertaking.
• 5. Ground 5 - On facts and circumstances of the case and in law, the Ld. CIT(A) erred in affirming the exclusion of "sundry balance write-back" and related provisioning adjustments without examining the Appellant's unrebutted explanation that such write-backs represented reversal of duplicate/ double booked purchases pertaining to the eligible unit.
• 6. Ground 6 - On facts and circumstances of the case and in law, the Ld. CIT(A) erred in upholding the reduction of deduction for "provision for doubtful debts" and "provision for advance to sundry creditors" despite the Appellant's categorical submission that corresponding disallowances were already made in the computation under the head "Profits and gains of business," and therefore no "double benefit" was claimed for the purpose of deduction under Section 80IC.

Judgment Outcome

Decided in favour of Assessee.

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