packaged software

Recently, the government issued fresh set of notifications rescinding the earlier ones which granted exemption from payment of Service tax on canned / packaged software if Excise duty / Customs duty (CVD) was paid. Similar set of exemption notificati Full Article

This article summarizes the recent Service Tax Notifications dated 21 December 2010 issued by the GOI including the withdrawal of exemption from payment of service tax under ‘information technology software service’ for import of single user canned o Full Article

Excise Duty :- Notification No. 30/2010- Central Excise (N. T) dated December 21, 2010 has been issued for levy of excise duty on packaged or canned software on Retail Sale Price basis. • Entry 93A has been inserted in Notification No. 49 Full Article

Notification No. 53/2010 – Service Tax,  New Delhi, the 21st December, 2010 G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the taxable [...] Full Article

Notification No.  126 / 2010- Customs, New Delhi, the    21st December, 2010 G.S.R.     (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby rescinds the notification [...] Full Article

New Delhi, the 21st  December, 2010 Notification No. 30/ 2010-Central Excise (N.T.) G.S.R.    (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 4A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby [...] Full Article

Rescinds notification no. 17/2010 – Exempts packaged software or canned software equivalent to the excise duty payable on the portion of the value determined under section 4 which represents the consideration paid or payable for transfer of the right to use such goods Notification No. 35/2010-Central Excise, New Delhi, the   21st December, 2010 G.S.R.     (E).- [...] Full Article

The Finance Act, 2008 brought some new services under the Service Tax net. One of them is Information Technology Software Service. Inclusion of a new services category — Information Technology Software Services — within the ambit of Service Tax legislation has created confusion among software firms. The levy of this new service along with other services has become effective from 16 May, 2008. Full Article