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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...
Jharkhand High Court held that benefit under SVLDRS scheme cannot be denied by the designated committee on the reason that department has decided to file an appeal against the OIO.
CESTAT Delhi held that Commissioner (Appeals) did not have the power to issue the notice under section 73(1) of the Finance Act. Accordingly, order passed thereon deserved to be set aside.
NIIT Limited Vs Commissioner, CGST (CESTAT Delhi) Transitional provision of Section 142(3) of CGST Act provides that every claim of refund filed by the person after the appointed day (30.06.2017) for refund of any amount of Cenvat credit/duty/tax/interest or any other amount paid under the existing law shall be disposed of in accordance with the […]
In the instant case no evidence has been produced by the revenue to hold that the amount collected by the appellant is exclusive of service tax or it has been separately collected by the appellant. In view of the above, we do not find any merit in the department’s stand that benefit of Section 67(2) could not be extended.
He pointed out that when trainees are employed by the appellant, the appellant spent a significant amount of time and money in training the employees therefore, the employment contract has various conditions put on the trainees. In case the trainee breaches any of those conditions, a specific amount is recoverable from the trainees. The said amount is also sought to be taxed under Section 66E(e) of the Finance Act, 1994.
Drishty Communication Private Limited Vs C.C.E. & S.T. (CESTAT Ahmedabad) The appellants were engaged in providing services as advertising service to get customize and were registered “The Indian Newspaper Society” (INS). They were remitting 85% of the total amount received from their customers on getting space/time from media agencies or news papers or various publications. […]
HC Held that, providing services of ‘Goods Transport Agency’ (GTA) does not fall within the category of ‘Clearing and Forwarding Agent’, provided to several recipients who were liable to discharge tax dues on freight under ‘RCM after availing permissible abatement.
Facts reveal that service tax in regard to impugned service already been paid to Government, department cannot collect service tax again on impugned service.
CESTAT held Service tax not payable on ‘Software Activation Charges’ under taxable services of ‘Business Auxiliary Services
National Fertilizers Limited Vs Commissioner CGST & Service Tax (CESTAT Delhi) It is not possible to accept the contentions advanced by the learned counsel for the appellant. It is not in dispute that the issues that arose in all the three appeals were identical. It is true that the Department had filed one appeal only […]
