{"id":16589,"date":"2021-06-16T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T06:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/?p=16589"},"modified":"2024-06-03T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T08:22:12","slug":"understanding-tonnage-taxation-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/understanding-tonnage-taxation-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Tonnage Taxation Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16592 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CAGMC-Facebook-OG-Tag-Image-Design-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CAGMC-Facebook-OG-Tag-Image-Design-1.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CAGMC-Facebook-OG-Tag-Image-Design-1-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CAGMC-Facebook-OG-Tag-Image-Design-1-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CAGMC-Facebook-OG-Tag-Image-Design-1-615x323.png 615w, https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CAGMC-Facebook-OG-Tag-Image-Design-1-400x210.png 400w, https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CAGMC-Facebook-OG-Tag-Image-Design-1-292x153.png 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A tonnage tax is a taxation mechanism that can be applied to shipping companies. In this method, the tax is determined by the net tonnage of the entire line of operating vehicles or use by a company.\u00a0Tonnage tax\u00a0is not a\u00a0tax\u00a0but somewhat a method for ascertaining taxable income.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using this scheme, the taxable income is computed as a lump sum depending on the size (net\u00a0tonnage) of the ship, independent of the actual income (profit or loss).<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #d2d2d2;\"><strong>Table of Content<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"1\">\n<li><a href=\"#vc\">Section 115VC: Qualifying Company<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#ships\">Qualifying Ships<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#ve\">Section 115 VE: Manner of Computation of Income under Tonnage Tax Scheme<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#vg\">Section 115 VG: Computation of Tonnage Income<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#vl\">Section 115 VL: General Exclusion of Deduction and Set-off, etc<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#vm\">Section 115VM: Exclusion of Losses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#jb\">Section 115JB: Exclusion from the provision of MAT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#vq\">Section 115VQ: Period for which tonnage tax option can be taken.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#vt\">Section 115VT: Transfer of profit to Tonnage Tax Reserve Account<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#vu\">Section 115VU: Minimum Training requirement for Tonnage Tax Company<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#vzb\">Section 115VZB: Avoidance of Tax<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#vzc\">Section 115VZC: Exclusion from Tonnage Scheme<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 id=\"vc\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Section 115VC:\u00a0 What is a Qualifying company?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A\u00a0company is said to be a qualifying company for Tonnage taxation if:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16591 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-at-11.58.06-AM.png\" alt=\"What is a Qualifying company?\" width=\"872\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-at-11.58.06-AM.png 872w, https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-at-11.58.06-AM-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-at-11.58.06-AM-615x351.png 615w, https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-at-11.58.06-AM-400x228.png 400w, https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-at-11.58.06-AM-292x167.png 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*POEM (Place of Effective Management) is a\u00a0place\u00a0where key\u00a0management\u00a0and commercial decisions are necessary for the conduct of the business or where the board of directors regularly approves the commercial and strategic decisions made by the executive directors or officers of the company, the place where such executive directors or officers of the company perform their functions, of an entity. A set of guiding principles to determine POEM has been issued by CBDT.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"ships\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Qualifying Ships<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sea-going ship or vessel having Net tonnage equal to or more than 15.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Ship registered under Merchant Shipping Act or Licensed obtained from DGS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Following are exclusions from Qualifying Ships &#8211;<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a sea-going ship or vessel if the foremost purpose for which it is used is the provisions of goods or services of a kind usually given on land;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fishing vessel;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">factory Ship means a ship rendering processing services in respect of fishing produce;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pleasure craft means a ship whose main use is for sport and recreation;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">harbor and river ferries;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0offshore installations;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0a qualifying ship used as a fishing vessel for more than thirty days during a previous year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"ve\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Section 115 VE: Manner of Computation of Income under Tonnage Tax Scheme<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The business of operating qualifying ships shall be regarded as a separate business separate from all other activities or business carried on by the company.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The profit from tonnage business shall be calculated separately from the profit and gains from any other business and shall be taxable under the head \u201c<b>Profit and gain of Business or Profession<\/b>\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"vg\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Section 115 VG:<\/b> <b>Computation of Tonnage Income<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<a href=\"https:\/\/incometaxindia.gov.in\/Acts\/Income-tax%20Act,%201961\/2012\/102120000000025260.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> tonnage income<\/a> of every qualifying ship shall be the daily tonnage income of each such qualifying ship multiplying it by-<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the number of the day in the previous year; or<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the number of days in part of the previous year in case the ship is operated by the company as a qualifying ship for only part of the previous year, as the case may be.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The daily tonnage income of a qualifying ship having tonnage referred in column (1)of the table below shall be the amount specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the table;<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Qualifying ship having Net tonnage\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Amount of daily tonnage Income to be taken<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1)<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up to 1000<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rs 70 for each 100 tons<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exceeding 1000 but not exceeding 10000<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rs 700 + Rs 53 for each 100 tons in excess of 1000 tons<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exceeding 10000 but not more than 25000<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rs 5,470 + Rs 42 for each 100 tons in excess of 10000 tons<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exceeding 25000<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rs 11,770 + Rs 29 for each 100 tons exceeding 25000 tons<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tonnage shall mean the tonnage of a ship indicated in the certificate issued under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tonnage shall be rounded off to the nearest multiple of hundred tons and for this purpose; any tonnage consisting of kilograms shall be ignored.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite anything held in any other provision of this Act, no deduction or set-off shall be allowed in computing the tonnage income under this chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"vl\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Section 115 VL:<\/b> <b>General Exclusion of Deduction and Set-off, etc.\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite anything contained in any other provision of this Act, in computing the tonnage income of tonnage tax company for Relevant previous year in which it is chargeable to tax under this chapter \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 30 to 43B shall be applicable as if every loss, allowance, or deduction referred to therein and relating to or allowable for any of the relevant previous year, had been given full effect for that previous year itself;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">no loss referred to in<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">section 70 or section 71 or section 72<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or section 72A, in so far as such loss links to the business of operating qualifying ships of the company, shall be carried forwarded or set-off where such loss relates to any of the previous years when the company under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagmc.com\/understanding-tonnage-taxation-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tonnage tax scheme<\/a>;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">no deduction shall be allowed under Chapter VI-A linked to the profit and gain from the business of operating qualifying ship; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in computing the depreciation allowances under section 32, the written down value of any assets used for the tonnage tax business shall be computed believing that the company has claimed and has been granted the deduction in respect of depreciation for the relevant previous years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"vm\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Section 115VM:<\/b> <b>Exclusion of Loss<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 72 (<\/span><b>Carry forward and set off of business losses)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0shall apply in respect of any losses that have accrued to a company before its opting for tonnage tax scheme and which are attributable to its tonnage tax business as if such losses had been set off against the related shipping income in any previous year when the company is under the tonnage tax scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"jb\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Section 115JB:<\/b> <b>Exclusion from the provision of MAT<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The book profit or loss that arose from the activities of a tonnage tax company, from the qualifying ships, shall be eliminated from the book profit of the company for section 115JB.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"vq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Section 115VQ: Period for which tonnage tax option can be taken<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An option for tonnage tax scheme after the approval shall apply for a period of ten years from the date on which such option has been used and shall be taken into account from the assessment year relevant to the previous year in which such option is implemented.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An option for tonnage scheme shall discontinue affecting the assessment year relevant to the previous year in which-<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the qualifying company cease to be qualifying company;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">default is made in complying with the provision regarding the transfer of profit to Tonnage Tax Reserve Account and minimum training requirement for tonnage company;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the qualifying company provides the Assessing officer, a declaration in writing stating that the provision of this chapter may not apply to it;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the tonnage tax company is suspended from the tonnage tax scheme under section 115VZC.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, the profit and gain of the company derived from the business of operating qualifying ships are computed under the other provisions of this Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"vt\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Section 115VT:<\/b> <b>Transfer of profit to Tonnage Tax Reserve Account<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An amount not less than 20% (percent) of the book profit reaped from the business of qualifying ships shall be credited to the Tonnage Tax Reserve Account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, it is required to keep a note that the amount credited to the Tonnage Tax Reserve Account shall be used by the company before the expiry of a period of next eight years following the previous year in which the amount was credited-<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0for acquiring a new ship for the business of the company; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">until the acquisition of a new ship, for the business of operating qualifying ships other than for distribution by way of dividends or profits or remittance outside India as profits or the formulation of any asset outside India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"vu\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Section 115VU:<\/b> <b>Minimum Training requirement for Tonnage Tax Company.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A tonnage tax company shall comply with the minimum training requirement specified by the Director-General of Shipping and notified in the official Gazette by the Central Government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the minimum training requirement is not exercised for any five consecutive previous years, the option of the company for tonnage tax scheme shall discontinue having effect from the start of the previous year following the fifth consecutive previous year in which the failure to comply with the minimum training requirement had happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"vzb\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Section 115VZB<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>Avoidance of Tax<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tonnage tax scheme shall not apply where a tonnage tax company by way of any transaction or arrangement tries to misuse the tonnage tax scheme.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A transaction or arrangement shall be considered a misuse if the entering into or the application of such transaction or arrangement result or resulted, in a tax advantage being gained for-<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a person other than tonnage company; or<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a tonnage tax company in respect of its non-tonnage tax activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"vzc\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Section 115VZC:<\/b> <b>Exclusion from Tonnage Scheme<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where a tonnage tax company is a party to any transaction or arrangement referred to in section 115VZB (<\/span><b>Operating ships.)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Assessing Officer shall, by an order in writing exclude such company from the tonnage tax scheme.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An opportunity shall be given by the Assessing Officer to the assessee by serving a notice calling upon such company to show cause on a date and time as specified in the notice that why it should not be removed from the tonnage tax scheme<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, no order shall be passed without the previous approval of the Principal Chief Commissioner\/Chief Commissioner.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, this section shall not apply where the company satisfies the Assessing Officer that the transaction was a legitimate commercial transaction and had not been entered into to obtain a tax advantage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where an order is passed by the Assessing Officer excluding the tonnage tax company from the tonnage tax scheme, the option for tonnage tax scheme shall discontinue being in force from the first day of the previous year in which the transaction was entered.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"conclusion\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government has launched the Tonnage Tax System for taxation of income obtained from shipping activities by an Indian Company. This Scheme is optional for a qualifying Indian shipping company like you can opt for it if you think it suits you. After satisfying some conditions a company is qualified to enter under the scheme. A company is required to have at least one qualifying ship to be eligible for Tonnage Tax Scheme, and that the business of the qualifying ship has to be managed as a separate business. Separate accounts must be kept for the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of us have doubts regarding tonnage tax scheme that is why this article is here for better understanding of this scheme of taxation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tonnage tax is a taxation mechanism that can be applied to shipping companies. 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