In a function held today (20-6-2012) in North Block, Hon'ble Finance Minister released the Guidance Paper on the new approach to service tax. The public release of the Guidance Paper marks the culmination of the year long efforts made by the Government to introduce a negative list based comprehensive approach to taxation of services as a ...
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Service tax, like any other indirect tax, is a destination based consumption tax born the ultimate user and collected by the provider. The core of the system is section 66B which is the charging section levying service tax @ 12% on the value of all services, other than those services specified in the negative list which are provided or a...
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Transfer pricing until now was applicable to companies having cross border transactions with their ASSOCIATED ENTERPRISE. However, Finance Bill 2012, honoring the supreme court ruling in case of CIT vs. M/S Glaxo Smithkline Asia (P) Ltd. (Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) No(s).18121/2007), expanded the ambit of transfer pricing to specifie...
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An insurance claim investigator cannot declare unilaterally a driving licence to be fake without any corroborating report from the transport authority, a Delhi district consumer forum has said....
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Australian Finance Ministry passes Tax Law Amendment (Cross Border Transfer Pricing Bill) Act (No. 1) 2012 with retrospective 01 July 2004. The Tax Law Amendment (Cross Border Transfer Pricing Bill) Act (No. 1) 2012 was passed by the house of representatives without amendments on 19 June 2012....
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The Union Budget 2012-13 had proposed taxation of services based on a 'Negative list’. With the enactment of the Finance Act, 2012 (the Act) on 28 May 2012, the concept of ‘negative list’ is made applicable and made effective for implementation from 01-07-2012. The Department of Revenue has issued Service tax notifications on 1 June...
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Client Information as well as due diligence on clients has become a necessity for professionals in today’s complex business scenario. Such an exercise can be made possible in a structured way. Many professional bodies today advise their members to have KYC about their clients so that professionals can freely exercise and deliver their p...
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Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee released the Guidance Paper on the new approach to service tax, here today. The release of the Guidance Paper marks the culmination of the year long efforts made by the Government to introduce a negative list based comprehensive approach to taxation of services as a part of the Budget exercise...
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Notification No. 40/2012-Service Tax -
20/06/2012
Notification No. 40/2012-Service Tax- Govt exempts the services on which service tax is leviable under section 66B of the said Act, received by a unit located in a Special Economic Zone (hereinafter referred to as SEZ) or Developer of SEZ and used for the authorised operations, from the whole of the service tax, education cess and second...
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Notification No. 39/2012-Service Tax -
20/06/2012
Notification No.39/2012 - Service Tax Central Government hereby directs that there shall be granted rebate of the whole of the duty paid on excisable inputs or the whole of the service tax and cess paid on all input services (herein after referred to as ‘input services’), used in providing service exported in terms of rule 6A of the...
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