Service Tax News, Articles, Notifications and Forms

Please refer to your letter dated 30.8.2011 on the above mentioned subject addressed to the Chairman, Central Board of Excise & Customs. In the said letter you have represented that Service Tax may not be charged on the activity of retreading of tyres under 'Management Maintenance & Repair Service', The argument given by you is that 'retreading of tyre' is specifically figuring in Central Excise Tariff under TI 4012 and therefore, they are excisable goods. Hence, in your.. Full Article

In the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 3/2012-Service Tax, dated the 17th March, 2012 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 201(E), dated the 17th March, 2012, at page 527, in line 22, Full Article

The Union Budget 2012-13 presented by the Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee in LokSabha on 16.03.2012 has made an effort to widen the service tax base, strengthen its enforcement and bring it as close as possible to the central excise. Clauses 143 to 145 of the Finance Bill, 2012 cover the legislative changes relating to Service Tax. Changes have also been made in the rules as well as exemptions. Full Article

In the Budget-2012-13 under the new Reverse Charge Mechanism in certain services the receipient of the service has been made liable to pay tax instead of service provider. In three of services namely hiring of means of transport, construction and man power supply both service receiver and service providers have been made liable to tax in the prescribed percentages. Full Article

In works contract service lump sum scheme for payment of service tax in a works contract has been introduced by amendment in Rule 2A of the Service Tax (Determination of Value) Rules, 2006 vide Notification No. 11/2012 - Service Tax dated 17-03-2012. In works contract service there were two types of schemes which were earlier available i.e payment of service tax on actual service involved and the composite scheme. Full Article

Ministry of Finance has Vide Service tax Notification No. 15/2012 dated 17.03.2012, specified that in respect of services provided by an individual advocate to any business entity, the service-tax payable by the advocate shall be Nil and that the person receiving the service shall pay 100% of the tax. Full Article

Notification No.15/2012-Service Tax The taxable services,— (A) (i) provided or agreed to be provided by an insurance agent to any person carrying on the insurance business; (ii) provided or agreed to be provided by a goods transport agency in respect of transportation of goods by road, where the consignor or the consignee is,— (a) any factory registered under or governed by the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948); (b) any society registered under the Societies Registrat.. Full Article

NOTIFICATION NO. 14/2012-ST, In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the taxable service involving import of technology, from so much of the service tax leviable thereon under section 66B of the said Act, as is equivalent to the amount of cess payable on the said import of technology under the pr.. Full Article