Bulk gifts for agri-input companies

Not the gift itself, but take your own compliance team's view on the scheme around it. What has been getting attention in this trade is conditional supply, where something is tied to buying a particular product, and the Department of Fertilizers wrote to fertiliser companies in July 2025 about tagging non subsidised products to subsidised fertiliser. That is a question about your scheme, not about the box. What we can say for our side is simple: nothing we send is conditional on a purchase.

Then check each one before it goes on the list, and take advice rather than ours. Giving an undue advantage to a public servant is an offence in its own right under the Prevention of Corruption Act as amended in 2018, and the law reaches the company and not only the person who hands it over. We will quote whatever list you confirm, and we would rather you took a name off than guessed.

Two things, and both are about the promise rather than the product. If you call it free it has to be free, and the price of what they buy cannot go up to pay for it. And you need enough stock to meet the demand the promise creates, because running out is the part that gets complained about. Tell us the footfall you expect and we will hold that quantity for you.

Usually yes, and your tax team should confirm the totals. The rule on benefits and perquisites, which used to be Section 194R and now sits in the Income-tax Act 2025, applies 10 per cent once one recipient's aggregate crosses 20,000 rupees in a financial year, and 20 per cent where they have no PAN. It is the aggregate of everything that recipient got in the year, not the value of one box, so only you can total it. Your own field team sits outside it, because salary rules apply to them.

No, and it is worth settling before the scheme is signed off. The ₹15,000 figure in the Income-tax Rules 2026 is an employer to employee rule, and the ₹50,000 GST line works the same way. Those two cover your field team and your office people. Your dealers are running their own businesses, so what reaches them is the benefits and perquisites rule above instead. If one order covers both groups, your file wants the two quoted separately, because the thresholds are not interchangeable.

Yes, and that is the normal shape here. Send the drop points with a count against each, whether they are depots, territory offices or the meet venue, and we pack and label to that list so nothing has to be sorted at the other end. Your field team moves the last stretch, which is the part you already do better than a courier.

Work back from your meet date or the season opening, not from a festival. Once artwork is signed off a branded run takes twelve to eighteen working days, and six to eight weeks before the date you need it is comfortable. Stocked items without branding move in four days, which is the number on the strip above.

We quote from 50 pieces and have run 50,000. Branded runs work from 100 pieces a design, and from 50 where we are laser engraving. The price a gift comes down as the quantity rises, because branding is a fixed cost for each design however many pieces it covers.

Yes. Give us the GSTIN for each state and we raise a separate invoice against each, with the HSN code on every line, and the goods move on their own documentation. That is what your finance team will want for the file, and it saves a reconciliation later.

Take your auditor's view and plan on the cautious answer. Section 17(5)(h) of the CGST Act blocks credit on goods disposed of by way of gift, and the position on goods given against a declared scheme entitlement is contested rather than settled. Budget on the landed cost including tax and let your CA take the position. You get a proper invoice with your GSTIN and the HSN code on every line either way.