Aspen Glove shall be entitled to offset the allowance against 100% of its statutory income for each year of assessment. Any unutilised allowance can be carried forward to subsequent years until fully utilised.
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The ITA is granted to Aspen Glove as part of incentives for priority sectors with a unique value proposition in the Northern Corridor Economic Region, where Aspen Glove’s facility is located.
Aspen says Aspen Glove is expected to fulfil all conditions imposed for the approval of the ITA including compliance with environmental, social and governance factors such as 80% local hires and15% science and technology graduate hires, vendor development programmes; corporate social responsibility, joint ventures with public universities and investment into research and development, among others.
Shares in Aspen closed 0.5 cents or 2.17% higher at 23.5 cents on April 1.