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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...
Please find attached 10th Edition of our e-book (999 pages) on Service Tax. The e-book contains Budget 2016 changes alongwith amended legal provisions / recent judicial precedence.
Budget 2016 has been introduced and with it has come many amendments and changes in the law. One such change is with respect to the services by way of transportation of goods by an aircraft or a vessel. The amendments made in it are effective from 1.6.2016 and will impose additional fiscal burden on the importers importing goods via sea. This article demonstrates the existing scenario, amendments made and the implications thereof.
INDIRECT TAXES – SERVICE TAX: The amendments proposed by the Finance Minister with respect to Service tax are discussed herein below. 1. Roll out of Goods and Services Tax (‘GST’): Like the last year, in his Speech this year, the Finance Minister has given reaffirmed commitment to ensure the passage of the Constitutional amendments to […]
Insertion of Explanation ‘BA’ after paragraph B: At present, there is abatement of 60% on the gross value of renting of motor-cab services, provided no Cenvat credit has been taken. It is being made clear by way of inserting an explanation that cost of fuel should be included in the consideration charged for providing renting of motor-cab services for availing the abatement.
Taxguru has come up with Analysis of Indirect Tax Provisions of Union Budget 2016, Presented by Finance Minister Shri. Arun Jaitley on 29.02.2016 in Association with International Business Advisors (IBA). In our Analysis we have covered the following Topics :- 1. Amendment in Cenvat Credit Provision 2. Key Amendment in Service Tax Provisions 3. Key […]
INDIRECT TAXES CENTRAL EXCISE Amendments made effective immediately The Clean Energy cess is to be renamed as Clean Environment cess. The effective rate of Clean Energy cess proposed to be increased from Rs.200 per tonne to Rs.400 per tonne . Infrastructure cess is to be levied on motor vehicles under heading 8703 subject to certain […]
The Finance Minister very clearly seems to have focused on empowering the ‘Make In India’ initiative by removing customs and excise duty exemptions on a variety of goods. The thrust seems to be more on electronics, hardware and the infrastructure industry where duty exemption has been provided to imported parts and components for manufacture of chargers/adapters, speakers
INTRODUCTION OF KRISHI KALYAN CESS W.E.F. 01.06.2016- There shall be levied and collected in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, a cess to be called the Krishi Kalyan Cess, as service tax on all or any of the taxable services at the rate of 0.50 percent on the value of such services for the purposes of financing and promoting initiatives to improve agriculture or for any other purpose relating thereto.
At present, in cases other than fraud, suppression etc cases the Service Tax Authorities can issue Show Cause Notice (SCN) within 18 months from the relevant date for non/short payment of Service Tax. Now, vide amendment to section 73 of the Finance Act, 1994 (Act) it is being proposed to increase the limitation period from […]
Here we are giving summery of all the amendments of service tax according to their applicability Date. A. With immediate effect (from 01.03.2016) (i) Restoration of exemption on services provided to the Government, a local authority or a governmental authority. (ii) Restoration of exemption on services to an airport, port. (iii) Withdrawal of exemption on services to monorail or metro, in respect of contracts entered into on or before 01.03.2016
