The Board vide Circular No. 113/07/2009-ST had laid down the procedure for carrying out detailed scrutiny of Service Tax Returns (ST-3) and had circulated a return scrutiny manual for Service Tax.
The Finance Act, 2015 had brought two important changes in Service Tax – (i) Issue of electronic invoices and its authentication by Digital Signature [Rule 4C] (ii) Maintenance of records on Electronic Form [Rule 5(4)] CBEC has now issued Notification No. 18/2015-Central Excise dated 06.07.2015 and a Circular No. 224/44/2014-CX dated 06.07.2015 to make the above rules operational implying that assessees can now use the benefit provided by Rule 4C and Rule 5(4).
Amendments shall have the following effect w.e.f. 14.05.2015– (1) The remedy of appeal to Tribunal u/s 86 is not available in every case as it has now been provided subject to the saving clause ‘save as otherwise provided herein’. The provisos added provide that saving. Thus, scope of section 86 has been curtailed. (2) Any appeal against the order of Commissioner (Appeal) in relation to matters concerning rebate of Service Tax (e.g. exports) shall be governed in terms of section 35EE of Central Excise Act, 1944.
Simply put, goods and services tax is a tax levied on goods and services imposed at each point of sale or rendering of service. Such GST could be on entire goods and services or there could be some exempted class of goods or services or a negative list of goods and services on which GST is not levied. GST is an indirect tax in lieu of tax on goods (excise) and tax on service (service tax).
The Union Government in third week of December, 2014 (19 December, 2014) introduced Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill, 2014 in Parliament which when passed shall pave the way for introduction of proposed Goods and Service Tax (GST) in India. This is an improvised version of lapsed 115th Amendment Bill of 2011.
The Cenvat Credit in respect of inputs may also taken on receipt of the inputs in the premises of the job worker, where in case of goods are sent directly to the job worker on the direction of the manufacturer or the provider of output service.b) Time limit for taking credit on inputs and input services from the present 6 months to one year from the date of invoice.
Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal ‘Resident firm’ can be Applicant (w.e.f. 1.3.2015) Vide Notification No. 9/2015-ST dated 1.3.2015, the facility of advance ruling has been extended to all resident firms w.e.f. 1.3.2015 by specifying the ‘resident firms’ under section 96A (b) (iii) of the Finance Act, 1994. For this purpose, ‘resident’ and ‘firm’ have also been defined […]
The Finance Bill, 2015 has been enacted as Finance Act, 2015 (Act No. 20 of 2015) on 14th May, 2015 after the assent of President of India. The provisions of Finance Act, 2015 shall therefore, become applicable w.e.f. 14.05.2015 save as otherwise provided in the Act. Such provisions shall be notified to be in force only from the notified date for which a notification shall be issued soon.
(a) Any invoice, bill or challan issued under Rule 4A can be issued electronically. (b) Consignment note under Rule 4B can be issued electronically. (c) Such electronically issued invoices, consignment note etc shall have to be authenticated by means of a digital signature.
The provisions of Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 were amended whereby a manufacturer or a service provider shall not take Cenvat credit of inputs, input services after a period of six months from the date of issue of invoice, bill or challan as the case may be. It may be noted that Cenvat credit with respect to invoices / challans / bills which were dated prior to 01.09.2014 shall also be subject to such time restriction.
