n exercise of the powers conferred by sub-rule(4) of rule 7 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994, the Central Board of Excise & Customs hereby extends the date of submission of the Form ST-3, for the period from 1st October 2012 to 31st March 2013, from 25th April, 2013 to 31st August, 2013. The circumstanc

April 1, 2013 has brought a new levy of tax in the form of service tax on all restaurants who serve food and beverages to customers in their restaurants.

We are sharing with you an important judgement of Hon’ble Mumbai High Court in the case of M/s Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals Corpn. Ltd. Versus Commissioner of Central Excise [(2013] 32 taxmann.com 135 (Bombay)] on following issue: Issue: Whether Services in relation to erection, commissioning and installation of storage tank for storage of imported inputs/ammonia [...]

Notification No. 08/2013 – Service Tax, This notification shall be applicable to the Vishesh Krishi and Gram Udyog Yojana (Special Agriculture and Village Industry Scheme) duty credit scrip issued to an exporter by the Regional Authority in accordance with paragraph 3.13.2 of the Foreign Trade Policy.

Notification No. 07/2013 – Service Tax, Application. – This notification shall be applicable to the Focus Product Scheme duty credit scrip issued to an exporter by the Regional Authority in accordance with paragraph 3.15 of the Foreign Trade Policy.

Notification No.06/2013 – Service Tax – Hereby exempts the taxable services provided or agreed to be provided against a scrip by a person located in the taxable territory from the whole of the service tax leviable thereon under section 66B of the said Act.

The case of the petitioners is that the authorities have no power to levy such service tax on the petitioners, who are service recipients as per Rule 2(1)(d)(iv) of the Service Tax Rules and also as per subsequently introduced Section 66A of the Finance Act, 1994 with effect from 18.4.2006.

Facts and circumstances of the case suggests that the appellant has adopted a novel way of splitting the consideration with nomenclature of reimbursement of expenses. Deliberate splitting is not possible to be ruled out when splitting is not intended by law. Once splitting is attributable to a motive, the appellant cannot get any shelter under the purview of law.

As regards fumigation charges, a specialized process for cleaning the containers, the Commissioner has allowed the claim on the ground that the fumigation is mandatory when agricultural products are exported and such fumigation can be done only by the Government approved agencies. Very same issue had come up before this Tribunal in the case of [...]

I find from the agreement that the activity of the appellant is limited to space selling in the three publications. The above clarification was given by the Board to agencies/persons who render canvassing services on commission basis. Board vide last para of the above circular had clarified that when their services of canvassing is limited [...]