Service Tax Return

Maintenance of records under the service tax is dealt with the provisions of Rule 5 of Service Tax Rules, 1994. According to the said rule following are the records required to be maintained for the purpose of service tax: Records including the computerised data as maintained by an assessee as per the various laws in force from time to time. 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

The Revenue Department has decided to cross check service tax returns in order to locate 9 lakh entities that have stopped filing returns. E -filing has been made mandatory from this year and the exercise of cross checking is likely to start after December 26, the last date for e-filing. According to the official sources, [...] Full Article

In exercise of the powers conferred by Rule 7(4) of the Service Tax Rules 1994 read with notification No. 48/2011-Service Tax dated 19th October 2011, Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby extends the date of submission of half yearly return for the period April 2011 to September 2011 from 25th October 2011 to 26th December 2011. Full Article

The assesses can electronically file statutory returns of Central Excise and Service Tax by choosing one of the two facilities being offered by the department at present: (a) they can file it on-line, or (b) download the off-line return utilities which can be filled-in off-line and uploaded to the system through the internet. Full Article

To transact business on ACES a user has to first register himself/herself with ACES through a process called ,Registration with ACES,. This registration is not a statutory registration as envisaged in Acts/Rules governing Central Excise and Service Tax but helps the application in recognizing the bona fide users. Described below are steps for taking registration by a new assessee, existing assessee, non-assessee and a Large Taxpayer Unit (LTU). Full Article

Assessees can file their Central Excise and Service Tax Returns using following offline Excel Utilities/XML Schema by downloading the same from this page. It is advised that the latest Excel Utility may be used every time, for filing Returns, by downloading it from the link given below Click on the respective Excel Utility/XML Schema hyperlink to download. Please refer the detailed Instructions Sheet embedded within the utility before using the same. Full Article

How to e-file return in ACES? Log onto www.aces.gov.in and Click 'Service Tax' Link on top menu bar. If you are registered with ACES, use your username and password to log-in. Select your return from RET menu and submit self-assessed return online. If not registered with ACES, furnish e-mail ID of the authorized person to your Range officer and an e-mail with T-PIN (Temporary User ID) and Password will be sent to enable you to register with ACES. If you do no.. Full Article