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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 : The CESTAT Chennai held that where service tax was not separately recovered from recipients, the gross receipts must be treated as...
Service Tax : The High Court dismissed a writ petition challenging a service tax order due to an inordinate delay of nearly four years. The Cour...
Service Tax : The Mumbai CESTAT remanded a service tax dispute after finding that the appellant failed to include grounds of appeal in the presc...
Service Tax : CESTAT Delhi set aside the refund rejection order after finding that issues relating to double payment of service tax and CENVAT c...
Service Tax : CESTAT ruled that the Department failed to consider ST-3 returns and service tax already discharged by the assessee. The Tribunal ...
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...
Attention is invited to the provisions contained in Section 11B of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (CEA) which provides for grant of refund of duty of excise and interest, if any, paid on such duty. Further the incidence of duty or interest is deemed to be passed on to the buyer of goods by the person paying it in terms of Section 12B of the CEA.
Service Tax on manufacture of alcoholic liquor for human consumption on job work basis with effect from 1st June 2015 is Constitutionally Valid: Delhi High Court. Issue Under Consideration These are three petitions filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India challenging the constitutional validity of Section 66B of the Finance Act, 1994 („FA […]
Service tax is the tax imposed by the government on the service providers on certain transactions and it is borne by the consumers. It was introduced in the Finance Act of 1994, it is an indirect tax levied on the services. Any service provider or organization that provides the taxable service over nine lakh must register the service tax because it helps the Department of Service tax to identify assesses and keep on track of all the aspects of compliances.
Appellant is the centrally registered taxpayer and the error committed could not be detected immediately and it took almost a month to recognise the excess payment made in the month of May, 2011 and hence it was adjusted against the tax liabilities for the month of July, 2011
Declaration made shall be acknowledged by the Designated Authority e. Assistant Commissioner specified by the jurisdictional Commissioner and the declarant shall be asked to pay the amounts due from him i.e. duty demanded
Recently, in a case of an assessee whose bank accounts were ordered to he attached without giving any opportunity to them, the Hon’ble Allahabad High Court after a detailed analysis of the legal provisions, observed, inter- alia, that the order directing attachment of the property without waiting for a reply to the show cause notice, and without giving any opportunity and without giving any notice, was in gross violation of Rule 3 of the Rules of 2008 read with paragraph 2 (iii) of the Circular dated 1st July, 2008.
Rule 6(2) of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 stipulate that while every assessee shall pay service tax electronically through internet banking, the jurisdictional Deputy/Assistant Commissioner, may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, allow the assessee to deposit service tax by any other mode.
As you are aware, in order to reduce litigation, Government has come out with an Indirect Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2016 in this year’s Budget. The scheme provides an opportunity to an assessee whose cases are pending before Commissioner (Appeals), to pay the duty, interest and penalty equivalent to 25% of penalty imposed and file a declaration, consequent to which the proceedings would be closed and immunity from prosecution granted except in certain cases.
During receipt of Appeal/application in Central Registry, it has been noticed that the DD/PO, submitted towards registration fee, has only few days of validity left on the day of its submission. Keeping above in view, all concerned are requested to ensure that DD/PO submitted towards appeal/application fee must be valid at least for 60 days on the date of submission.
AAR held that a revenue sharing arrangement by creating a partnering person shall be liable to service tax if the partners are providing taxable service to one another in execution of partnering purpose even if the purpose of creating partnering person is non-taxable.
