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No Service Tax on Legal Services by Advocate to Law Firm Bombay HC

Service Tax : The Bombay High Court ruled that legal services provided by an advocate to a partnership firm of advocates are exempt under servic...

March 7, 2026 669 Views 0 comment Print

Foreign Speaker Payments for Leadership Summit Not Event Management Service: SC

Service Tax : The Court held that booking speakers for an event does not amount to event management. Participation or facilitation alone cannot ...

January 20, 2026 468 Views 0 comment Print

Service Tax Applicable on Export Cargo Handling at Airports: SC

Service Tax : Supreme Court reaffirms Service Tax applicability on export cargo handling services by Airports Authority of India under Airport S...

November 6, 2025 552 Views 0 comment Print

Legal Services under the Service Tax Regime

Service Tax : Under India’s earlier service tax regime, legal services initially enjoyed complete exemption from taxation. This position chang...

September 14, 2025 1443 Views 0 comment Print

Affiliation Fees – No Service Tax Can Be Demanded: CESTAT Delhi

Service Tax : CESTAT rules that affiliation fees collected by universities are statutory functions, not taxable services. Service tax demand and...

August 29, 2025 951 Views 0 comment Print


Latest News


Black fungus – Evidence Based Advisory in the Time of Covid-19

Service Tax : [Screening, Diagnosis & Management of Mucormycosis (black fungus)] Mucormycosis – if uncared for – may turn fatal ...

May 17, 2021 1443 Views 0 comment Print

Service Tax Department issuing illegal SCN for FY 2014-15

Service Tax : Chartered Accountants Association, Jalandhar has made a representation to FM regarding Misuse of Official Position by making rovin...

January 5, 2021 75486 Views 15 comments Print

Director of a company arrested for evasion of Service Tax

Service Tax :  Officers of CGST Delhi North Commissionerate have arrested one Director of a Company for evasion of Service Tax. The Company had...

July 12, 2018 3066 Views 0 comment Print

ICAI Pre Budget 2018 Suggestion on Service Tax, Cenvat Credit Rules, Excise Duty, Custom Duty & CST

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...

December 28, 2017 2157 Views 0 comment Print

Summary of CAG Audit Report on Service Tax for Year ending on March 2017

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...

December 21, 2017 2109 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


CESTAT Grants Cum-Tax Benefit as Service Tax Was Not Collected Separately: CESTAT Chennai

Service Tax : The CESTAT Chennai held that where service tax was not separately recovered from recipients, the gross receipts must be treated as...

May 28, 2026 99 Views 0 comment Print

Telangana HC Dismisses Delayed Service Tax Challenge Filed After Four Years

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...

May 28, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Remands Service Tax Case Due to Failure to File Grounds of Appeal in ST-4 Form

Service Tax : The Mumbai CESTAT remanded a service tax dispute after finding that the appellant failed to include grounds of appeal in the presc...

May 25, 2026 117 Views 0 comment Print

Refund Claim Cannot Be Rejected Without Examining Double Service Tax Payment and Credit Eligibility

Service Tax : CESTAT Delhi set aside the refund rejection order after finding that issues relating to double payment of service tax and CENVAT c...

May 25, 2026 156 Views 0 comment Print

Srvice tax exemption cannot be denied for late EXP-1 & EXP-2 form filing

Service Tax : CESTAT ruled that the Department failed to consider ST-3 returns and service tax already discharged by the assessee. The Tribunal ...

May 24, 2026 135 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Appointment of CAA in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Shell India Markets Pvt. Ltd.

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...

May 9, 2023 1974 Views 0 comment Print

Appointment of CAA in respect of SCNs issued to M/s A.K. Construction Co.

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-...

May 4, 2023 936 Views 0 comment Print

Appointment of CAA in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Hi-tech Equipment Services

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...

May 4, 2023 798 Views 0 comment Print

Appointment of CAA in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Subhash Earthmovers

Service Tax : Appointment of Common Adjudicating Authority (CAA) in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Subhash Earthmovers vide Order No. 05/2023-Ser...

May 4, 2023 852 Views 0 comment Print

Payment of Service Tax by department of Posts & Ministry of Railways by way of book adjustment

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...

March 21, 2023 2136 Views 0 comment Print


Service Tax on Renting of Commercial Immovable Property – Delhi High Court on 26.04.2011

April 27, 2011 10867 Views 0 comment Print

When the Court assembled today, Ms. Sonia Sharma, representing UOI, rose to inform the Court that Mr. A.S. Chandiok, ASG, was indisposed (food poisoning). The matter thereupon was adjourned to 9th May. It was however, made clear by CJ Mr. Dipak Misra that no more adjournments would be granted. In case, any one else is unable to cause appearance, the case must still be argued by nominee. It was assured by Mr. Mukesh Anand, Sr. Counsel.

Amends Taxation of Services Rules 2006 vide Notification No. 37/2011 – Service Tax

April 26, 2011 4389 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 37/2011 – Service Tax 1. (1) These rules may be called the Taxation of Services (Provided from Outside India and Received in India) (Third Amendment) Rules, 2011. (2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of May, 2011. 2. In the Taxation of Services (Provided from Outside India and Received in India) Rules, 2006, in rule 3, in clause (i), for the brackets, letters and words “(zzzzm) and (zzzzu)”, the brackets, letters and word “(zzzzm), (zzzzu), (zzzzv) and (zzzzw)” shall be substituted;

Amends Export of Services Rules, 2005 vide Notification No. 36/2011 – Service Tax

April 26, 2011 2129 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 36/2011 – Service Tax 1. (1) These rules may be called the Export of Services (Third Amendment) Rules, 2011. (2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of May, 2011. 2. In the Export of Services Rules, 2005, in rule 3, in sub-rule (1), in clause (i), for the brackets, letters and words “(zzzzm) and (zzzzu)”, the brackets, letters and word “(zzzzm), (zzzzu), (zzzzv) and (zzzzw)” shall be substituted;

Amendment in Service Tax Rules, 1994 related to life insurance business service – Notification No.35/2011–Service Tax

April 26, 2011 2420 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No.35/2011 – Service Tax (7A) An insurer carrying on life insurance business shall have the option to pay tax: (i) on the gross premium charged from a policy holder reduced by the amount allocated for investment, or savings on behalf of policy holder, if such amount is intimated to the policy holder at the time of providing of service; (ii) 1.5 per cent of the gross amount of premium charged from a policy holder in all other cases; towards the discharge of his service tax liability instead of paying service tax at the rate specified in section 66 of Chapter V of the said Act:

Abatement on accommodation services by Hotel & to Restaurants having license to serve alcohol

April 26, 2011 18010 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No.34/2011 – Service Tax – Services provided or to be provided, to any person, by a restaurant, by whatever name called, having the facility of air-conditioning in any part of the establishment, at any time during the financial year, which has licence to serve alcoholic beverages, in relation to serving of food or beverage, including alcoholic beverages or both, in its premises; Services provided or to be provided, to any person, by a hotel, inn, guest house, club or campsite, by whatever name called, in relation to providing of accommodation for a continuous period of less than three months;

Service tax – Govt exempts coaching and training services related to preschool and recognised educational qualification certificate / Degree

April 26, 2011 5066 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No.33/2011 – Services provided by a commercial coaching or training centre in relation to preschool coaching and training and any coaching or training leading to grant of a certificate or diploma or degree or any educational qualification which is recognized by any law for the time being in force will be exempt from service tax with effect from 1st May 2011.

No exemption on statutory representation service provided by CA, CS, CWA

April 26, 2011 16357 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No.32/2011 – Service Tax – Services provided or to be provided by practicing professionals, i.e. chartered accountants, cost accountants and company secretaries respectively, in their professional capacity, to a client, relating to representing the client before any statutory authority in the course of proceedings initiated under any law for the time being in force, were exempted from service tax vide Notification No. 25/2006, dated 13 July, 2006.

Govt exempts service tax on hotels where declared tariff for providing of accommodation is less than rupees 1000 per day

April 26, 2011 8662 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No.31/2011 – Service Tax – Government hereby exempts the taxable service as referred to in sub-clause (zzzzw) of clause (105) of section 65 of the said Act, when the declared tariff for providing of such accommodation is less than rupees 1000 per day from the whole of the service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the said Act.

Govt exempts services provided by any hospital, nursing home or multi-specialty clinic

April 26, 2011 22383 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 30/2011 – Service Tax – G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the taxable service referred to in sub-clause (zzzzo) of clause (105) of section 65 of the Finance Act, from the whole of the service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the said Act.

Budget 2011- Service Tax- Govt Appoints the 1st day of May 2011 as the day for Finance Act, 2011 ( 8 of 2011) to come into force

April 26, 2011 4273 Views 0 comment Print

29/2011 – Service Tax, dated 25-04-2011- In exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (A) and (B) of section 71of the Finance Act, 2011 ( 8 of 2011), the Central Government hereby appoints the 1st day of May 2011, as the date on which the provisions of the said Act shall come into force.

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