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Service Tax : The Bombay High Court ruled that legal services provided by an advocate to a partnership firm of advocates are exempt under servic...
Service Tax : The Court held that booking speakers for an event does not amount to event management. Participation or facilitation alone cannot ...
Service Tax : Supreme Court reaffirms Service Tax applicability on export cargo handling services by Airports Authority of India under Airport S...
Service Tax : Under India’s earlier service tax regime, legal services initially enjoyed complete exemption from taxation. This position chang...
Service Tax : CESTAT rules that affiliation fees collected by universities are statutory functions, not taxable services. Service tax demand and...
Service Tax : [Screening, Diagnosis & Management of Mucormycosis (black fungus)] Mucormycosis – if uncared for – may turn fatal ...
Service Tax : Chartered Accountants Association, Jalandhar has made a representation to FM regarding Misuse of Official Position by making rovin...
Service Tax : Officers of CGST Delhi North Commissionerate have arrested one Director of a Company for evasion of Service Tax. The Company had...
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...
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...
Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai set aside the service tax demand, holding the extended limitation period was not invocable as suppression with inte...
Service Tax : CESTAT Allahabad set aside interest demand, holding set top boxes qualified as inputs and full CENVAT credit was admissible on rec...
Service Tax : CESTAT Hyderabad allowed CENVAT credit on an imported dredger as input under Rule 2(k), set aside the credit demand and disposed o...
Service Tax : Calcutta HC quashed invocation of a performance bank guarantee for recovery under an earlier contract and directed refund of the g...
Service Tax : CESTAT Kolkata set aside Service Tax demand, interest and penalty, holding issues in favour of the appellant on exemption or lim...
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...
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-...
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...
Service Tax : Appointment of Common Adjudicating Authority (CAA) in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Subhash Earthmovers vide Order No. 05/2023-Ser...
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...
CESTAT Chandigarh held that sub-contractor is liable to pay service tax on ‘Erection, Commissioning and Installation service’ even if the main contractor has discharged Service Tax liability on the activity undertaken by the subcontractor.
CESTAT Hyderabad held that amount of incentive received by the Advertising Agency from the print media cannot levied to service tax under Business Auxiliary Service (BAS).
CESTAT Chandigarh held that the Registration under a particular service is not necessary for the purpose of claiming exemption under Notification No. 41/2007 dated 06.10.2007.
CESTAT Chandigarh held that sub-contractor is liable to pay the Service Tax even if the main contractor has discharged the liability. Accordingly, service tax payable on ‘Commercial or Industrial Construction Service’.
CESTAT Bangalore held that imposition of penalty unsustainable as service tax is demanded due to mis-interpretation of service being classified as joint venture agreement and not a franchisee service.
CESTAT Chandigarh held that know-how is not an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) within the meaning of service tax law and consequently its transfer is not liable to service tax.
CESTAT Mumbai, in the case of Konkan Railway Corporation Limited v. Commissioner of Service Tax, ruled that the appellant, being a deemed railway company under the Indian Railways Act, is exempt from service tax liability. Gain insights into the ruling and its implications.
CESTAT Mumbai held that coaching in the field of sports has been specifically excluded from the applicability of service tax vide the definition of commercial training or coaching centre under section 65(27) of the Finance Act 1994
CESTAT Chennai held that branch office located in USA rendered the ‘onsite support service’ to its associated enterprise (AE) situated outside India and hence the same is not exigible to tax under the Finance Act, 1994 and accordingly all charges under the Finance Act are set aside.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that services related to construction of roads etc. the Government authorities/ agencies are covered under Mega Exemption of Service Tax notification no. 25/2012-ST and hence demand unsustainable.
