Archive for February, 2010

the taxes levied by any Government on any passenger travelling by air, if shown separately on the ticket, or the invoice for such ticket, issued to the passenger." Full Article

153(E), dated the 1st March, 2002, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government hereby extends the provisions of Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), to the areas specified in column (2) of the Table below, in the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone of India for the purposes as mentioned in column (3) of the said Table:- Full Article

Seeks to exempt the taxable service provided in relation to on-line information and database access or retrieval services and business auxiliary services by any Indian news agency subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions. Full Article

Seeks to exempt the taxable service provided in relation to erection, commissioning or installation of mechanised food grain handling systems, equipment for setting up or substantial expansion of cold storage, and expansion of units for processing agricultural, apiary, horticultural, dairy, poultry, aquatic and marine products and meat. Full Article

Notification No. 11/2010-Service Tax,-Service tax notification exempting taxable service provided in relation to transmission of electricity Full Article

Seeks to exempt the taxable service provided by a Central or State Seed Testing Laboratory and Central or State Seed Certification Agency notified under Seeds Act, 1966 from technical testing and analysis services and technical inspection and certification service. Full Article

Notification No. 09/2010-Service Tax, New Delhi, the 27th February, 2010. In the said notification, in the Table, against S.No.1 1 for the entry in column (3), the following entry shall be substituted, namely:- "Transport of goods by rail." This notification shall come into force on the first day of April, 2010. Full Article

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), (hereinafter referred to as the Finance Act), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the taxable service provided to any person in relation to transport of goods, the description of which is specified in column (2) of the Table below, by rail as referred to in sub-clause (zzzp) of clause (105).. Full Article