SEZ Services

The Special Economic Zone (SEZ) policy in India first came into inception on 1 April 2000. SEZs typically offer competitive infrastructure, duty free exports, tax incentives, and other measures designed to make it easier to conduct business. Accordingly, SEZs in India are a popular investment destination for many multinationals, particularly exporters.

SEZ in India are regulated being a bonded area and needs to comply with various rules and regulations for day to day operations and movement of goods and services under SEZ Act, 2005 and SEZ Rules, 2006 along with other laws as applicable.

Our team at Darda Advisors is highly business oriented in approach and has extensive experience in working with SEZ developer, units for setting up, regular operation support and other aspects across sectors and the acumen to provide complete solutions for all SEZ related matters.

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Developer/Co-developer

We assist in following SEZ services for SEZ set up by Developer/Co-developer:

  • SEZ In Principal Approvals
  • SEZ Formal Approvals
  • Notification of SEZ
  • Demarcation of area into Processing and Non-processing
  • Approval of list of material and list of services
  • Extension of in principle / formal approval
  • Denotification and Exit from SEZ support
SEZ Units

We assist in following services for setting up SEZ unit:

  • SEZ unit approval
  • Bond cum Legal Undertaking support and other inception of SEZ unit related support
  • Renewal of Letter of Approval
  • Exit from SEZ support
SEZ Management Services

We assist in following SEZ management services:

  • Periodical SEZ review
  • Scrap and wastage removal approval
  • Compliances management and record keeping on a day to day basis
  • SOFTEX preparation and submissions through SEZ Online
  • APR (Annual Performance Report) preparation and submission through SEZ Online
  • Periodic reports preparation assistance like MPR, QPR, HPR, Six Monthly material utilization reports
  • Endorsement of goods/services as required under GST law
SEZ Online Services

We assist in following online services related to SEZ:

  • Online registration of ID and New unit Approval in SEZ online
  • Regularization of existing SEZ Units /Developers/Co-developers
  • Creation of Developer/Unit maker IDs and Developer/Unit approver IDs
  • Updation of Bond Cum Legal Undertaking in SEZ Online system to enable users to execute various transactions
  • Preparation of Bill of Entries online for material procurement for authorized operation
  • SOFTEX and APR preparation and submission
  • Bill of Export preparation online
  • Shipping bill preparation
  • Temporary removal Challan preparation
  • DTA sale document creation and processing
Incentives, subsidies and grants services

Manufacturing has emerged as one of the high growth sectors in India targeting global markets and are becoming formidable global competitors. To promote India as manufacturing hub, Central and State/Union Territories Governments provides various incentives, subsidies and grants to set up manufacturing facility in India. In addition, there are certain incentives for services and other sectors too.

The Government of India provides sector specific subsidies for promoting manufacturing. Further, Package Scheme of Incentives (PIS) is a policy made by every individual state to promote industrial development, employment, investments, inventions and growth. A PIS differs from state to state and is governed by the Directorate of Industrial Policy and Promotions. The development of every state very much depends upon their state policy and also their ease of doing business (EoDB) ranking. Generally, state policies are for the period of 5 years.

Every industrialists and manufacturers need guidance and support to understand central and state policy. Our team at Darda Advisors is highly business oriented in approach and has experience across sectors and the acumen to provide complete solutions for all incentives, subsidies and grants related matters. We provide the following key services:

  • Evaluating various Central and State industrial policy and suggest optimal benefits availability
  • Assist in consultation and negotiation of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with State Government
  • Assistance in retrieval of supporting documents from Central/State authority
  • Obtaining pre-approval as required under State Industrial Policies and Central Policies for specific sector
  • Designing system and assistance for generation of necessary documentation for preparing refund/ disbursement claim
  • Preparing refund/disbursement claim as per statutory requirement
  • Filing and processing of refund/disbursement claim with Central/State Authority and follow up
  • Making representation in case refund/disbursement claim rejected