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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...
Recent Issue under Service Tax-Amnesty Scheme 2013- Whether it can be said that Audit was pending as on 01.03.13, if Audit Para was not determined and/ liability was also not quantified till 01.03.13
Of late there have been confusions as to jurisdiction before whom rebate cases pertaining to service tax should be filed when an order is passed by Commissioner of Central Excise (Appeals). In terms of first proviso to section 35B(1) of Central Excise Act, which states that no appeal shall lie before the Appellate Tribunal and […]
Applicable from 01.07.2012, Section 66B of the Finance Act, 1994 provides that service tax shall be leviable on the value of service provided or agreed to be provided by one person to another within taxable territory. Thus, only services rendered in taxable territory is taxable. Hence, it is essential to determine the place where the services are provided or agreed to be provided.
VAT not leviable on portion which attracts service tax; NO VAT on ST portion of Restaurant bill When Service tax leviable on 40% of the Restaurant bill , VAT not leviable on the portion which attracts service tax: An Analysis of Land mark Judgment of Uttarakhand High Court which addressed crucial issue of double taxation […]
Service Tax paid after March 1, 2013 but before enactment of VCES on May 10, 2013 – Should be considered as paid under VCES We are sharing with you an important judgment of the Hon’ble Gujarat High Court in the case of Sadguru Construction Co. Vs. Union of India on the following issue: Issue: Whether […]
i. Whether any service tax can be charged on a sale of an item or vice versa; ii. Whether in view of Article 366 (29A)(f) service is subsumed in sale of food and drinks; iii. Whether section 66E(i) of the 1994-Act is violative of Article 366 (29A)(f) of the Constitution.
It is held by the Hon’ble High Court of Calcutta that the amendment brought vide the Finance Act, 2013 does not have any retrospective effect, therefore, question of bailability and non-bailability almost comes to a point of merger, benefit of which should be extended to accused person.
CA Jayant Bothra This article deals with various aspect of assessment under service tax. Unlike in the current scenario there is the system of self assessment in the past there was no such system of self assessment. In past practices under service tax there was the system of regular assessment under which the assessee use […]
The High Court of Ahmedabad held in the case of Ramilaben Bharatbhai Patel v. Union of India that in exercise of writ jurisdiction, the High Court does not have power to waive or relax the condition of depositing 50% of tax dues by December 31, 2013 under the Service Tax Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme, 2013.
Rule 5B has been inserted in Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 w.e.f. 01.07.2012 vide Notification No. 28/2012-CE(NT) dated 20.06.2012. Under Rule 5B, inserted w.e.f. 1.7.2012 vide Notification No. 28/2012-CE (NT) dated 20.6.2012, refund of Cenvat Credit will be allowed to service providers providing services on reverse charge basis.
