For the purposes of this Chapter, a company is a qualifying company if-
(a) it is an Indian company;
(b) the place of effective management of the company is in India;
(c) it owns at least one qualifying ship; and
(d) the main object of the company is to carry on the business of operating ships.
Explanation.-For the purposes of this section, "place of effective management of the company" means-
(A) the place where the board of directors of the company or its executive directors, as the case may be, make their decisions; or
(B) in a case where the board of directors routinely approve 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.
Section 115VA Computation of profits and gains from the business of operating qualifying ships
Section 115VC Qualifying company
Section 115VE Manner of computation of income under tonnage tax scheme
Section 115VG Computation of tonnage income