Thus, if an assessee declares amount of Service tax payable by him in his ST-3 Return (on self-assessment) but does not pay the Service tax, immediate recovery proceedings can be initiated under Section 87 of Finance Act, without even issuing any SCN.
Whether Cenvat credit on Inputs can be denied when defect in raw material is detected after it undergoes certain process of manufacturing and whether it can be said that such raw material has not been used in the manufacture of final product?
Mega Exemption under Service Tax and Point of Taxation Rules, 2011 – Relevance in GST Regime We are happy to inform that the Fourth Workshop under the series is being organised on the theme “Mega Exemption under Service Tax and Point of Taxation Rules, 2011 – Its relevance in GST Regime on Friday, 17 July, 2015 […]
CBEC vide Circular No. 113/07/2009-ST dated April 23, 2009 had laid down the procedure for carrying out detailed scrutiny of Service Tax Returns (ST-3 Returns) and had circulated a Return Scrutiny Manual for Service tax.
The Service Tax Rules, 1994 were amended vide Notification No. 5/2015 – ST dated March 1, 2015 to insert New Rule 4C after Rule 4B thereof. In terms of Rule 4C of the Service Tax Rules, provision for issuing digitally signed invoices, bill or challan has been added along with the option of maintaining of records in electronic form and their authentication by means of digital signatures effective from March 1, 2015.
Whether the benefit of export can be denied on account of non-realisation of export proceeds when goods are exported without payment of Excise duty under Bond?
Whether an appeal under Section 85 of the Finance Act, 1994) would lie as against the Rejection Order of declaration passed by the Designated Authority under the Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme, 2013 .
HC held that the principles of compensatory measure may apply where the legislature is silent about entitlement of interest on refund of the tax amount, which is already paid by the Assessee. Thus, by considering interest by way of a compensatory measure
The Hon’ble High Court of Madras held that the issues raised by the Appellants and answered by the Commissioner (Appeals) in their favour has to be considered by the Tribunal on its own merits and there being no finding on the issues in the manner in which the plea has been taken by the Appellants,
Bracing to roll out the new Indirect tax regime — Goods and Services Tax from April 1, 2016, the Central Government on Wednesday, June 17, 2015 announced the setting up of two Committees to suggest tax rates and to look into IT preparedness.
