Service Tax News, Articles, Notifications and Forms

The Appellants are dealers of Ford Motor vehicles and they had entered into agreements with different banks and also with Non-Banking Financial Companies to market car-loan to potential customers. For loan taken by the customers, these appellants got commission from the banks and NBFCs. The issue in this appeal is whether service tax is to be paid on such commission categorizing the activity of the Appellants as “business auxiliary service”. Definition of BAS servic.. Full Article

As from 1.4.2012 the determination of point of taxation is on the basis of invoices for large CA firms. For this several representations were made to CBEC requiring clarification of invoices issued on or before 31st March 2012 where the payment has not been received before 1st April 2012. Full Article

Meaning:- The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a comprehensive value added tax (VAT) on the supply of goods or services. France was the first country to introduce this value added tax system in 1954 devised by a public servant. In India, due to non consensus between central and state government, the proposal is to [...] Full Article

Service tax format of declaration and covering letter for issue of User ID and TPIN at aces.gov.in site for existing Assessee’s. EXISTING USER: Directly contact your service tax range office. Kindly submit a requisition letter to your range officer along with your company name, Reg. No & your updated communication email id. After submitting requisition, you will get the TPIN and PASSWORD through Email. Full Article

CENTRAL Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has issued clarification vides Circular No. 158/9/ 2012–ST dated. 8th May, 2012 on the rate of service tax applicable wherein invoices were raised before 1st April 2012 and the payments shall be after 1st April 2012 in case of the 8 specified services provided by individuals or proprietary firms or partnership firms, to which Rule 7 of Point of Taxation Rules 2011 was applicable and services on which tax is paid under reverse .. Full Article

The Finance Minister has introduced the Finance Bill, 2012 proposing, inter alia, taxation of services based on a negative list. This announcement involves a paradigm shift by moving away from taxation of specified description of services to a new system of taxation of all services except those specified in the negative list or otherwise exempted. An important key for its implementation is to identify the taxing jurisdiction for a service. Full Article

Under the present system there are 88 exemption notifications. The need for exemptions is not obliterated with the introduction of negative list. While some existing exemptions have been built into the negative list, others, wherever necessary, have been retained as exemptions. In addition new exemptions are proposed to be introduced in the context of the negative list. For ease of reference and simplicity most of the exemptions are part of one single mega exemption noti.. Full Article

In the definition of ‘service’ contained in clause (44) of section 65B of the Act it has been stated that service includes a declared service. The phrase ‘declared service’ is also defined in the said section as an activity carried out by a person for another for consideration and specified in section 66E of the Act. The following nine activities have been specified in section 66E: Full Article