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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...
Notification 12/2013 exempts the services on which service tax is leviable under section 66B of the Finance Act, 1994 from the whole of the service tax, education cess, and secondary and higher education cess leviable thereon received by a unit located in a Special Economic Zone or Developer of SEZ and used for the authorised operations.
Uniform List of Services To Be Followed in SEZs – Representations have been received for inclusion of more services in the list of default authorised services. The matter was considered during the DC meeting held on 7th November, 2013 and it has been decided that following two more services may be included in the list of default authorised services:-
The higher education and school education are exempt from service tax since the inception of the old service tax regime. For example, under the business auxiliary service head, activity of job work in relation to education was exempt, under the commercial coaching or training services, pre-school coaching/training or any educational qualification recognised by law was exempt; under outdoor catering service head, service relating to mid day meal scheme for school were exempt ;
Service tax was introduced vide the Finance Act, 1994 and since then the same has undergone with various changes and modifications in its growth from infancy to literal maturity. Service Tax has maintained the notorious trait and over time has evolved a web of complex and confusing provisions.
The definition of service in the first instant is very wide to cover any transaction done for a consideration. However, there exist few activities which would overlap with the other levies of state with a marginal difference, thereby questioning the constitutional validity of the levy under service tax.
It was held by the Hon’ble High Court that the Department cannot be permitted to unjustly hold on the Appellant’s money without any interest, as it would amount to benefiting the Department from its own wrong.
Section 91 provide for power to arrest. It empowers the Commissioner of Central Excise, to authorize any officer of Central Excise not below the rank of Superintendent of Central Excise, to arrest a person for the offences specified in clause (i) or clause (ii) of sub-section 89.
Services provided in relation to serving of food or beverages by a canteen having the facility of air-conditioning or central air-heating at any time during the year maintained in a factory covered under the Factories Act, 1948 will be exempt from levy of service tax.
Whether the same activity can be considered as manufacturing and subjected to excise duty and at the same time considered to be a service and subjected to service tax?
We recently had meeting with Member, CBEC during Interaction with various Trade Associations on 23.09.2013. The presentation was made by Department officials on Service Tax Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme, 2013. For the benefit of all the professional colleagues, I am giving link to download Notification and forms. The copy of presentation is available on following […]
