The Hon’ble Vice President, CESTAT has ordered as under:- 1. Hence forth appeals and stay applications are to be listed in the cause list chronologically age-wise. 2. Assistant Registrars of the concern Benches will ensure that at least 20 stay applications and 15 regular matters are listed in cause list chronologically.

Government exempts the following two Schemes under services of life insurance business from Service tax by adding the same in mega Exemption Notification No. 25/2012-Service Tax :- (a) Janashree Bima Yojana (JBY); or (b) Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana (AABY)

SERVICE TAX (FIFTH AMENDMENT) RULES, 2012 – AMENDMENT IN FORM ST-1 AND INSERTION OF ANNEXURE AFTER ACKNOWLEDGEMENT NOTIFICATION No. 48/2012-ST [F.No. 137/22/2012-ST]/GSR 858 (E), dated 5-12-2012 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section(l) read with sub-section (2) of section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 ( 32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes [...]

Amendment in Form ST-1 consequent to restoration of accounting codes NOTIFICATION NO 48/2012 – Service Tax Dated: November 30, 2012 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section(1) read with sub-section (2) of Section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994( 32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the [...]

I am directed to refer to Ministry’s letter of even number dated the 20th June, 2001 (Annex) on the above subject and to state that the policy/procedure/guidelines in respect of grant of reward to Informers and Government servants contained in the said letter stand modified to the extent indicated below :-

Circular No. 165/16/2012 -ST Service specific Accounting Codes restored; 120 services labeled with codes unlike to one code for negative list. – Negative List based comprehensive approach to taxation of services came into effect from the first day of July, 2012. Accounting code for the purpose of payment of service tax under the Negative List approach [All Taxable Services – 00441089] was prescribed vide Circular 161/12/2012, dated 6th July, 2012.

Computerisation programme for improving management of information about cases handled by CESTAT and also communication between CESTAT and litigants before CESTAT PUBLIC NOTICE F. No. 1(1)/CESTAT/Comp/SOFT/2012, dated 16-11-2012 CESTAT, New Delhi Bench is presently implementing a computerization programme to improve the management of information about cases handled and also to improve the means of communication [...]

It is to bring to the notice of all trade associations and stake holders that concerns have been expressed in various forums regarding the leviability of Service Tax on the remittance of foreign currency in India from overseas.

Modified version of the Service Tax Return (ST3) for the quarter April to June 2012 is now available for uploading to ACES .It is available in ‘DOWNLOADS’ section in offline version only and not online version. In view of the implementation of the Negative List concept in Service Tax with effect from 1st July, 2012

In 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 return for the period 1st April 2012 to 30th June 2012, from 25th October, 2012 to 25th November,2012.