Delhi HC stays differential demand of service tax of 2% on services provided & invoices issued prior to 01.04.2012 – Delhi High Court Stays collection of differential demand of service tax of 2% on services provided and invoices issued prior to 01.04.2012 for which payment received after 31.03.2012 on following 8 categories of professionals services :- 1. Architect 2. Interior Decorator 3. Cost Accountant 4. Chartered Accountant 5· Company Secretary 6. Scientific or Technical Consultancy 7.Legal Service 8. Consulting engineer services.
Notification No. 46/2012-ST Security service has also been notified under reverse charge on which liability to pay service tax would be partly on service provider (25%) and partly on the service receiver(75%). This provision is applicable when service is provided by any individual, HUF, partnership firm or AOP to a business entity registered as body corporate. Now security service has specifically been defined whereby services of investigation, detection or verification are included.
Company receiving services from the directors are being brought into tax net as new Notification No. 45/2012-ST, dated 7-8-2012 has clarified that in respect of services provided by the directors to company, liability to pay service tax would be on the company under reverse charge. Companies would be required to pay service tax on gross amount paid to directors.
Clarity in tax laws, a stable tax regime, a non-adversarial tax administration, a fair mechanism for dispute resolution, and an independent judiciary will provide great assurance to investors. We will take corrective measures wherever necessary. We have recently appointed two Committees, one to examine GAAR legal provisions and guidelines and the other to review taxation of the IT sector and Development Centres. I have also directed a review of tax provisions that have a retrospective effect in order to find fair and reasonable solutions to pending as well as likely disputes between the Tax Departments and the Assessees concerned. With these measures, and some other measures that we hope to take in the short term, it is our intention to raise the level of investment to 38% of the GDP that was achieved in 2007-08.
The issue whether a particular let out is business or earning rental income by the owner of the premises has to be decided in the facts and circumstances of each case. Therefore, so far as the rental income for the let out premises owned by the assessee is concerned, the issue is settled by the Supreme Court in various decisions and it has been held that the income realized by such owner by way of rental income from a building, whether commercial building or residential, is assessable under the head ‘income from house property’.
The appellant Rajasthan Cricket Association organises cricket matches in various places in Rajasthan and they allow different parties to put up advertisement in the stadium in which matches are being organised, and they have been collecting charges for selling such advertisement space. Revenue made out a case that Appellant should have paid service tax under the taxable entry in Section 65(l05)(zzzm) which covers sale of space for advertising.
No doubt the Notification requires that details of export invoices should be mentioned in lorry receipts and shipping bills, however, there is no bar to provide these details separately in case the original lorry receipts/shipping bills did not contain these details. The Revenue is free to insist on verification in such cases and refund can be granted only after verification. The question whether such condition is substantive or otherwise is not required to be examined. Matter remanded to adjudicating authority for verification in aforementioned terms.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 642, read with sub-section (2) of section 637A of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Central Government hereby amends the notification of the Government of India in the erstwhile Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs (Department of Company Affairs) number G.S.R. 501(E), dated the 6th July, 1999 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), dated the 6th July, 1999, namely:-
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CBEC has vide notification Notification No. 44/2012-ST, dated 7-8-2012 extended service tax exemption to ‘slaughtering of all animals service; earlier this was available only for ‘slaughtering service of bovine animals’. As per wiki dictionary Bovine animal includes domestic cattle (Cow) , bison, buffalo and yaks.
