Tribunal and held that since amendment to the Service Tax Rules have come into effect on August 16, 2002 and it is only by way of amendment the liability of service recipient to pay Service tax on the Impugned Service arises otherwise there was no liability on the Respondent to pay Service tax during the period under dispute. Since the Respondent was not liable to pay Service tax, the Respondent is also not liable to pay Interest as well as penalty.
The nature and character of the amendment decides whether an amendment made is declaratory or clarificatory and accordingly whether retrospective or not. A declaratory law is always prospective while clarificatory law is retrospective in nature;
Service elements in a composite Works contract (involving transfer of property in goods and rendition of services), where such services are classifiable under CICS, COCS and ECIS are subject to levy of Service tax even prior to insertion of taxable service ‘Works Contract’ under Section 65(105) (zzzza) of the Finance Act i.e. prior to June 1, 2007.
The article briefly explains the guidelines issued by the Auditing Assurance Standards Board of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India on Reporting of Fraud under Sec 143(12) of the Companies Act 2013.
Amendments to The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2013 The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval to amendments to the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2013 pending in the Rajya Sabha, and approved amendments proposed in the Bill. The recommendations of the Standing Committee of […]
Release of additional installment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief to Pensioners, due from 1.1.2015 The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval to release an additional installment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners with effect […]
In notification, No. 12/97-CUSTOMS (N.T.), dated the 2nd April, 1997 in the Table, against serial number 12 relating to the State of Uttar Pradesh, after item (xiii) and the entries relating thereto, in columns (3) and (4), the following item and the entries shall respectively be inserted, namely:-
Prior to January 03, 2012 the mechanisms available for promoters to sell shares included sale of shares in the secondary market, offer for sale of shares to public through prospectus, sale through block deal window and spot delivery under Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956.
GST has been talk of the town since a decade now. However, there have been some concerted efforts from last couple of months to make it a conscious reality. Various deliberations have been made to work out the modalities of GST structure, its supposed modus operandi which should be simple, transparent, efficient, comprehensive and practicable.
NOTIFICATION NO. 2/2015-2020, Dated: April 7, 2015 Export of all varieties of onions as described above will be subject to a Minimum Export Price (MEP) of US$ 250 per MT (reduced from MEP of US$ 300 per MT earlier).
