Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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The earliest year of a series that you are willing to defend as being on the same basis as the present, and from which every growth rate is measured.
Writing it down is what stops a series quietly growing backwards later, when a longer track record would be more flattering than a shorter one.
A central government scheme paying a percentage of incremental sales of qualifying goods manufactured in India, over a fixed base year, for a defined number of years and subject to a ceiling.
A rent holiday with the end date printed in a public notification. Counting the cash is correct; carrying the margin past the tenure quietly assumes a scheme extension nobody has announced.