Income-tax Act, 1961 · Chapter VI: A · C.-Deductions in respect of certain incomes
Section 80JJA: Deduction in respect of profits and gains from business of collecting and processing of bio-degradable waste
The Income-tax Act, 1961 was repealed by the Income-tax Act, 2025 from 1 April 2026. The text is kept here because the judgments below apply it.
Where the gross total income of an assessee includes any profits and gains derived from the business of collecting and processing or treating of bio-degradable waste for generating power [or producing bio-fertilizers, bio-pesticides or other biological agents or for producing bio-gas or] making pellets or briquettes for fuel or organic manure, there shall be allowed, in computing the total income of the assessee, [a deduction of an amount equal to the whole of such profits and gains for a period of five consecutive assessment years beginning with the assessment year relevant to the previous year in which such business commences].
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 80JJA
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