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Service Tax : Understand the CESTAT Ahmedabad ruling in Vishal Tansukhbhai Gohel vs Commissioner of Central Excise & ST. No service tax on freig...
Service Tax : CESTAT Mumbai, in Tata AIG case, rules credit can't be denied for incorrect service description on invoices when correct service t...
Service Tax : CESTAT Ahmedabad ruling in Shakti Enterprise vs Commissioner of Central Excise & ST clarifies that CHA's reimbursable expenses are...
Service Tax : Dive into the legal battle over corporate guarantees' taxability as Business Auxiliary Service. Explore the CESTAT's decision, the...
Service Tax : Learn about a CESTAT ruling regarding service tax on advance membership fees collected by clubs. Analysis and implications include...
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 set aside demand of service tax on amounts received as booking cancellation charges, price difference & corporate discount,...
Service Tax : CESTAT Bangalore held that that service tax on commission paid to foreign commission agents is payable under reverse charge only ...
Service Tax : CESTAT quashes service tax demand against Yatra Online Pvt Ltd, ruling that convenience and cancellation fees are not connected to...
Service Tax : Zest Buildtek Promotors Vs Deputy Commissioner of GST & Central Excise (Madras High Court)Issuance of attachment order under provi...
Service Tax : Read the detailed analysis of Assam Cooperative Apex Bank Ltd vs Commr. of CGST (CESTAT Kolkata) where Kolkata CESTAT ruled that n...
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...
Reduction in number of levies: Education Cess and Secondary & Higher Education Cess on taxable services have been subsumed in Service Tax with effect from 06.2015. [Sections 153, 159 of the Finance Act, 2015 read with notification No.14/2015-Service Tax, dated 19.05.2015 refers].
Service Tax in India is 21 years old now. When it was introduced vide Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) from 01.07.1994, the rules were also notified from that date, to administer this law, taking authority from section 94 (2) of the said Act. These rules are called the Service Tax Rules, 1994. These rules are the basic rules for administration of service tax and have been amended from time to time according to the need and changes in the economic and other conditions in the country.
Knowledge is an eye for the blind, ears for the deaf, strength for the weak and all in all it is a boon for the mankind. It is argued that a person who is blind is weak only in one sense but the one who is uneducated is weak by all senses. For every benefit that you receive, a Tax is levied. Perhaps this seemed never so real than today in the Indian context.
Rule 2(e) defines ‘point of taxation’ as the point in time when a service shall be deemed to have been provided. This will be determined as per Point of Taxation Rules 2011. The determination of point of taxation shall be crucial to determine the timing of service tax liability and the applicability of rate of service tax. The taxability will be decided by point of taxation only. The Point of Taxation rules provide for various situations to determine the point of taxation.
The penal provisions under the Service Tax and the Central Excise has been liberalised vide the Finance Act, 2015, effective from May 14, 2015, whereby, in terms of the amended provisions, if an assessee is willing to pay the duty/tax along with interest either before the issuance of Show Cause Notice (SCN) or within 30 days from the date of issue of SCN, there shall be:
In the case of CCE v M/s Gujarat Maritime Board Hon’ble Supreme Court held that no service tax will be levied if the amount is collected under the wharfage charges which is prescribed under the Statute and doesn’t come under the ‘Port Services.
The Point of Taxation Rules, 2011 were notified on March 1, 2011 and have been amended from time to time. As mentioned in my earlier Article, service tax is one of the most important sources of revenue for the Central Government and therefore the legislators are trying to bring more and more persons under the service tax net. The introduction of Negative List Regime w.e.f. 01.07.2012 is an example of this.
The Service Tax was introduced in India around 21 years back on July 1, 1994 at the recommendations of Dr. Raja Chelliah Committee on tax reforms. The introduction of this levy in India can be termed as milestone in Indian Tax history.
Whether mandatory pre-deposit provision under Section 35F of the Central Excise Act, 1944[as applicable for Service Tax vide Section 83 of the Finance Act, 1994 and for Customs vide Section 129E of the Customs Act, 1962] would be applicable to the cases where the lis commenced prior to August 6, 2014?
Vide Notification Nos. 6/2013-ST, 7/2013-ST and 8/2013-ST, all dated 18.4.2013, Central Government had exempted the taxable services provided or agreed to be provided against a scrip by a person located in the taxable territory subject to certain conditions. Later, few other exemptions have been exempted vide Notification Nos. 10/2015-ST and 11/2015-ST, both dated 08.04.2015.
