Pioneer Status
12 important questions on Pioneer Status
What is pioneer status given for?
- Promoted activities
- Promoted products i.e. PAPP
What happens once the production is fixed for a company with pioneer status?
- Statutory income is 100% or 70% tax exempt
- Tax relief period runs for five years from the production day
How is the production day defined for a company with pioneer status?
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What is the incentive for pioneer status regarding statutory income?
What happens to pioneer loss during the TRP?
How is 30% of statutory income treated under pioneer status?
Cant set off using CYBL n donations
How is pioneer loss handled in the post TRP?
What happens to exempted income if there is no pioneer loss?
How is exempted income handled if there is a pioneer loss?
What are the conditions to claim pioneer status? (POP)
- Company is producing PAPP
- Company is profitable or has a short gestation period(short loss periods)
- Company is not claiming other incentives
What is the maximum period for carrying forward excess pioneer loss?
List some activities/products under pioneer status wit h100% exemption
- Tourism in the East Coast Economic Region
- Petrochemical in Kerith
- High technology company in a promoted activity
- Production of a promoted product in new technologies
- Contract R&D co
- SME with 15% value added
- Automotive components module
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