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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 Ahmedabad rules in favor of Aquamarine Exports, stating no service tax liability on commission deducted from export invoices.
Exemption notification should not be liberally construed and it was for the assessee to show that he came within the purview of the notification as on and after 01.07.2012, such activity by the Market Committees was put in the Negative List, it could safely be said that under the 2006 circular, the Market Committees were not exempted from payment of service tax on such activities.
Mindtree Ltd Vs Commissioner of Service Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) It was not intention of the Government to tax software services as information technology services including ‘Software Maintenance Services’ were excluded from ‘Business Auxiliary Services’; the explanation added in the definition of ‘Goods’ to include computer services if can only be prospective from 1.6.2007 and the […]
Rambagh Palace Hotel Pvt. Ltd. Vs Commissioner, Central Excise (CESTAT Delhi) Present appeal has been filed to assail the Order-in-Appeal No. 215/2021 dated 25th June, 2021. The facts relevant for the impugned appeal are as follows:- That M/s. Rambagh Palace Hotel Pvt. Ltd. i.e. the appellant are engaged in providing different services relating to hotel […]
Adiraj Manpower Services Pvt. Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Central Excise (Supreme Court) The appellant has sought the benefit of Notification No. 25/2012-Service Tax dated 20 June 2012. Under the terms of the notification, the Central Government exempted certain taxable services from the whole of the service tax leviable under Section 66(B) of the Finance Act […]
Munish Rajkumar Mahajan Vs Union of India (Bombay High Court) This Court held that having regard to the objective of the scheme, in a case of this nature, a reasonable and pragmatic approach has to be adopted so that a declarant can avail the benefits of the scheme; a declarant who seeks benefit under the […]
Rajcomp Info Service Limited Vs Commissioner (CESTAT Delhi) In this case Liquidated damages, has been held to be susceptible to service tax under section 66E(e) of the Finance Act by the Commissioner as an amount received for tolerating an act. According to the appellant, the liquidated damages recovered on account of breach or non-performance of […]
Rambagh Palace Hotel Pvt. Ltd. Vs Commissioner, Central Excise & CGST (CESTAT Delhi) Appellate Authority/ Commissioner (A) has not given any finding which may falsify the findings of original adjudicating authority. Commissioner (Appeals) has been silent about CA certificate. Thus, I opine that Commissioner (Appeals) has committed an error by holding the refund to hit […]
MSPL Ltd Vs Commissioner of Central Excise and Customs (CESTAT Bangalore) Briefly stated the facts of the case are that the appellants are engaged in mining and sale/export of iron ore and are registered with service tax department. The appellants have availed ‘own your wagon scheme’ introduced by Indian Railways by purchasing and leasing out […]
Cades Digitech Pvt Ltd Vs Commissioner of Central Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) We find that the amounts incurred by the head office (HO) towards the salaries etc. of the employees working in their branches can by no stretch of imagination be equated to any service rendered to them by the respective branches. We find that in […]
