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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...
NOTIFICATION No 16/2015-ST, Dated: May 19, 2015 Amendment in the Mega Exemption Notification relating to (i) Job work (alcoholic liquors for human consumption) and (ii) Services by way of right to admission shall be effective from 1-6-2015
NOTIFICATION No 15/2015-ST, Dated: May 19, 2015 Revised rates of compounded levy of service tax under Rule 7, 7A, 7B and 7C shall be effective from 1.6.2015 Central Government hereby appoints the 1st day of June, 2015 as the date on which the provisions of sub-clauses (a), (b) and (c) and item (A) of sub-clause (d) of clause (ii) of sub-paragraph (e) of paragraph 2 of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 05/2015 – Service Tax, dated 1st March, 2015, published in the gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 159(E), dated 1st March, 2015 shall come into force.
NOTIFICATION No 14/2015-ST, Dated: May 19, 2015 In exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (a), (c) and (f) of section 107, section 108, sub-sections  (2), (3) and (4) of section 109, section 153 and section 159 of the Finance Act, 2015 (No. 20 of 2015), the Central Government hereby appoints the 1st day of June, 2015 as the date on which the provisions of clauses (a), (c) and (f) of section 107, section 108, sub-sections (2), (3) and (4) of section 109, section 153 and section 159 of the said Act shall come into force.
NOTIFICATION No 13/2015-ST, Dated: May 19, 2015- Amends Abatement Notification no. 26/2012 ST dated 20-6-2012 – Removes the entry related to Chits in the definition part
INANCE BILL 2015 RECEIVED PRESIDENT ASSENT Finance Bill, 2015 has got President Assent on 14th May, 2015 and has become Finance Act, 2015. As you know, Finance Bill 2015 has proposed lot of changes in Service tax provisions, applicable with effect from various dates. Now with the enactment of Finance Bill, 2015, following changes have […]
We are summarizing hereunder the changes in Service tax that are effective from May 14, 2015 and the changes that will become effective only from the date to be notified later for easy digest:
The Hon’ble President has given assent to the Finance Bill, 2015 on Thursday, May 14, 2015. Accordingly, the Finance Bill, 2015 now becomes Finance Act (No.20), 2015. However, it is to be noted here that increase in the rate of Service tax from 12.36% to flat 14% (Subsuming Education cess and Secondary & Higher Secondary Education cess) as was proposed in the Union Budget, 2015 will become effective only after the date to be notified and not effective from May 14, 2015.
The Finance Bill 2015 presented by the Hon’ble Finance Minister in the Lok Sabha on 28th February, 2015 had proposed for various amendments in the provisions dealing with Service Tax under Finance Act, 1994 and Service Tax Rules, 1994. Also, the same had undergone various amendments post discussions in Lok Sabha vide Notice of Amendments dt 29th April, 2015.
The Finance Bill, 2015 has been enacted as Finance Act, 2015 (Act No. 20 of 2015) on 14th May, 2015 after the assent of President of India. The provisions of Finance Act, 2015 shall therefore, become applicable w.e.f. 14.05.2015 save as otherwise provided in the Act. Such provisions shall be notified to be in force only from the notified date for which a notification shall be issued soon.
On 14-05-2015, Finance Bill 2015 has become Finance Act 2015 as it received assent from the president. Let us analyse certain provisions which become applicable on enactment of the Finance Bill 2015
