Budget

1. Amendments in Service Tax Rules and Point of Taxation Rules, which are effective from 01 .04.2012. 2. Amendments in Statutory provisions which will be effective from the enactment of Finance Bill, 2012. 3. Amendments in Section 65B – Interpretations – effective along with negative list based taxation. Full Article

1. Services provided to the United Nations or a specified international organization; 2. Health care services by a clinical establishment, an authorised medical practitioner or para-medics; 3. Services by a veterinary clinic in relation to health care of animals or birds; 4. Services by an entity registered under section 12AA of the Income tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) by way of charitable activities; Full Article

Transfer of right to use goods is a well recognized constitutional and legal concept. Every transfer of goods on lease, license or hiring basis does not result in transfer of right to use goods. Transfer of right of goods involves transfer of possession and effective control over such goods in terms of the judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of State of Andhra Pradesh v. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. [Judgment dated 6/2/2002 in Civil Appeal no. 31 of 1991]. Transfer o.. Full Article

Yes. However, most of the services provided by the Government or local authorities are in the negative list. Rationale behind taxing certain activities of the Government or local authorities. Only those activities of Government or local authorities are taxed where they compete with private entities. The rationale is as follows- to provide a level playing field to private entities in these areas as exemption to Government in such activities would lead to competitive in.. Full Article

The manner of treatment of such composite transactions for the purpose of taxation, i.e. are they to be treated as sale of goods or provision of service, has been laid down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited v. Union of India [2006 (2) STR 161 (SC)]. The relevant paras 42 and 43 of the said judgment are reproduced below Full Article

Alternate Minimum Tax (AMT) on all persons other than companies - * Under the existing provisions, AMT is levied on LLP. Now AMT is also proposed to be levied on partnership firms, sole proprietorship, AOP Full Article

Budget 2012 Presented by Finance Minister on 17.03.2012 proposed that the cycles for the payment service tax and filing of return should coincide. In View of the same Following Changes are proposed in Rules Related to periodicity of Service tax Return Filing and Service tax payment. Full Article

It is proposed to prescribe a common application format (as per Annexure 1) for seeking registration under Central Excise as well as Service Tax. It is also proposed to revisit the process of registration under both Central Excise and Service Tax to amend procedures prescribed in respect of registration. The changes proposed in respect of Registration processes are as follows: Full Article