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Service Tax Applicable on Export Cargo Handling at Airports: SC

Service Tax : Supreme Court reaffirms Service Tax applicability on export cargo handling services by Airports Authority of India under Airport S...

November 6, 2025 336 Views 0 comment Print

Legal Services under the Service Tax Regime

Service Tax : Under India’s earlier service tax regime, legal services initially enjoyed complete exemption from taxation. This position chang...

September 14, 2025 723 Views 0 comment Print

Affiliation Fees – No Service Tax Can Be Demanded: CESTAT Delhi

Service Tax : CESTAT rules that affiliation fees collected by universities are statutory functions, not taxable services. Service tax demand and...

August 29, 2025 570 Views 0 comment Print

How to Claim TDS Refund for Google Ads in India

Service Tax : Learn about the process of deducting and claiming TDS on Google Ads payments in India. Understand key rules, deadlines, and the st...

August 23, 2025 2604 Views 0 comment Print

Stem Cell Banking is Healthcare Service & Exempt from Service Tax: SC

Service Tax : Supreme Court ruled stem cell banking services are healthcare, exempt from service tax. Extended limitation period also found wron...

July 18, 2025 603 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


Black fungus – Evidence Based Advisory in the Time of Covid-19

Service Tax : [Screening, Diagnosis & Management of Mucormycosis (black fungus)] Mucormycosis – if uncared for – may turn fatal ...

May 17, 2021 1320 Views 0 comment Print

Service Tax Department issuing illegal SCN for FY 2014-15

Service Tax : Chartered Accountants Association, Jalandhar has made a representation to FM regarding Misuse of Official Position by making rovin...

January 5, 2021 74910 Views 15 comments Print

Director of a company arrested for evasion of Service Tax

Service Tax :  Officers of CGST Delhi North Commissionerate have arrested one Director of a Company for evasion of Service Tax. The Company had...

July 12, 2018 2931 Views 0 comment Print

ICAI Pre Budget 2018 Suggestion on Service Tax, Cenvat Credit Rules, Excise Duty, Custom Duty & CST

Service Tax : A suitable amnesty scheme must be thought of for all Central Laws and State Laws which have been merged in GST in one go to reduce...

December 28, 2017 1998 Views 0 comment Print

Summary of CAG Audit Report on Service Tax for Year ending on March 2017

Service Tax : Section 16 of CAG’s (DPC) Act, 1971 mandates CAG to audit receipts payable into consolidated fund of India and to satisfy that t...

December 21, 2017 1938 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Invocation of extended period not justified as inadmissible Cenvat Credit duly reflected in return

Service Tax : CESTAT Allahabad held that extended period of limitation is not invocable since alleged inadmissible cenvat credit was duly reflec...

December 29, 2025 219 Views 0 comment Print

Service Tax Demand Quashed as Cinema Counter Food Sales Not a Service: CESTAT Delhi

Service Tax : The dispute concerned whether food sold at cinema counters involved a taxable service. The Tribunal held such transactions to be p...

December 29, 2025 297 Views 0 comment Print

SVLDR Scheme Inapplicable Where SCN Issued After 30 June 2019: Delhi HC

Service Tax : The Delhi High Court held that the SVLDR Scheme cannot be invoked for a show cause notice issued after 30 June 2019. Even if the n...

December 25, 2025 108 Views 0 comment Print

Writ Petition Rejected Because Challenge Was Made at Service Tax SCN Stage

Service Tax : The dispute concerned service tax liability proposed in an SCN. The Court held that extraordinary jurisdiction cannot be invoked a...

December 25, 2025 96 Views 0 comment Print

No Service Tax on Indenting Services Rendered to Overseas Principals: CESTAT Mumbai

Service Tax : The Tribunal held that commission-based support services provided to foreign entities qualified as export of services, making serv...

December 18, 2025 123 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Appointment of CAA in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Shell India Markets Pvt. Ltd.

Service Tax : Appointment of Common Adjudicating Authority in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Shell India Markets Pvt. Ltd. vide Order No. 08/202...

May 9, 2023 1866 Views 0 comment Print

Appointment of CAA in respect of SCNs issued to M/s A.K. Construction Co.

Service Tax : Appointment of Common Adjudicating Authority (CAA) in respect of SCNs issued to M/s A.K. Construction Co. vide Order No. 07 /2023-...

May 4, 2023 765 Views 0 comment Print

Appointment of CAA in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Hi-tech Equipment Services

Service Tax : Appointment of Common Adjudicating Authority (CAA) in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Hi-tech Equipment Services vide Order No. 06/2...

May 4, 2023 672 Views 0 comment Print

Appointment of CAA in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Subhash Earthmovers

Service Tax : Appointment of Common Adjudicating Authority (CAA) in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Subhash Earthmovers vide Order No. 05/2023-Ser...

May 4, 2023 726 Views 0 comment Print

Payment of Service Tax by department of Posts & Ministry of Railways by way of book adjustment

Service Tax : CBIC earlier noted that the practice of payment of Service tax by way of book adjustment adopted by the Department of Posts and th...

March 21, 2023 1815 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Posts in Service Tax

Invocation of extended period not justified as inadmissible Cenvat Credit duly reflected in return

December 29, 2025 219 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Allahabad held that extended period of limitation is not invocable since alleged inadmissible cenvat credit was duly reflected in the return. Accordingly, demand beyond normal period of limitation set aside.

Service Tax Demand Quashed as Cinema Counter Food Sales Not a Service: CESTAT Delhi

December 29, 2025 297 Views 0 comment Print

The dispute concerned whether food sold at cinema counters involved a taxable service. The Tribunal held such transactions to be pure sales of goods and set aside the service tax demand with consequential relief.

SVLDR Scheme Inapplicable Where SCN Issued After 30 June 2019: Delhi HC

December 25, 2025 108 Views 0 comment Print

The Delhi High Court held that the SVLDR Scheme cannot be invoked for a show cause notice issued after 30 June 2019. Even if the notice arises from the same dispute, eligibility depends strictly on the statutory cut-off date.

Writ Petition Rejected Because Challenge Was Made at Service Tax SCN Stage

December 25, 2025 96 Views 0 comment Print

The dispute concerned service tax liability proposed in an SCN. The Court held that extraordinary jurisdiction cannot be invoked at this stage and directed the petitioner to pursue adjudication remedies.

No Service Tax on Indenting Services Rendered to Overseas Principals: CESTAT Mumbai

December 18, 2025 123 Views 0 comment Print

The Tribunal held that commission-based support services provided to foreign entities qualified as export of services, making service tax demands unsustainable.

Denial of CENVAT Credit without specific reasoning is unsustainable: CESTAT Mumbai

December 17, 2025 156 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Mumbai set aside orders denying CENVAT Credit on rent-a-cab and insurance services, directing the original authority to provide detailed reasons and grant personal hearing.

Service tax is not leviable on construction of Traffic and Transit Management Centres

December 17, 2025 135 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Chennai held that construction of Traffic and Transit Management Centers is covered within the ambit of transport terminal, and hence falls within the exclusion category of definition of taxable services of Works Contract Services, and hence the same is not liable to service tax.

Service Tax Tax Demand Set Aside Due to Non-Examination of Exemption Claims: CESTAT Mumbai

December 16, 2025 192 Views 0 comment Print

The Tribunal remanded the case after finding that the adjudicating authority failed to examine exemption eligibility and supporting documents, directing fresh consideration of service tax liability.

Service by Marriott Hotels India to group company outside India qualifies as export of service

December 16, 2025 159 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Mumbai held that services rendered by Marriott Hotels India Private Limited to their group company [Marriott Hong Kong] qualifies as export of services and accordingly no service tax is leviable. Thus, order quashed and appeal allowed.

Denial of refund based on limitation not justified as department itself acknowledged non-liability

December 15, 2025 195 Views 0 comment Print

Chhattisgarh High Court held that denial of refund claim on the basis of limitation cannot be justified, since amount during investigation was paid under bona fide belief and particularly, when the Department itself acknowledged non-liability. Accordingly, appeal is allowed.

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