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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


CESTAT Quashes Service Tax Demand Against Jharkhand State Cricket Association

September 14, 2024 654 Views 0 comment Print

Detailed summary of the JSCA vs Commissioner of Excise case, discussing taxability on services and exemptions related to sports promotion activities.

Service Tax Refund cannot be denied for Stamp Duty Evidence if stamp duty was exempt

September 12, 2024 771 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT approves refund claim of ₹15.3 lakh for Rare Townships Pvt Ltd. Dispute over stamp duty compliance resolved in favor of the appellant.

No service tax on preferential location charges if not charged separately

September 5, 2024 684 Views 0 comment Print

Where preferential location charges charged by the builder includible in the taxable value of the service tax levy and no separate charge was levied, the liability to pay service tax did not arise as it was only when a particular service was separately charged that the liability to pay service tax arose.

Sale of lottery tickets doesn’t involve any service hence not leviable to service tax

September 5, 2024 807 Views 0 comment Print

Supreme Court held that the sale of lottery tickets by the State is a privileged activity by itself and not rendering of a service for which the assessees are rendering promotion or marketing service. Hence, service tax not leviable under ‘Business Auxiliary Services’.

No demand of service tax as Venture Capital Trust was not a Juridical Person

August 31, 2024 531 Views 0 comment Print

Assessee was a venture capital trust. Institutional investors contribute money to the trust fund and the same was managed by an Investment Manager. An investigation was conducted by Anti-Evasion Unit of the Jurisdictional Commissionerate against assessee.

Scheme approved by Court cannot be base for issuance of notice: Bombay HC

August 27, 2024 645 Views 0 comment Print

Bombay High Court held that show cause notice based on allegation that scheme approved by the Court is in contravention of provisions of the Finance Act quashed as order sanctioning the scheme has not been challenged by any authority and has attained finality.

Place of Provision Rules Not Applicable; Transaction Considered as Export of Service, No Service Tax Liability

August 24, 2024 855 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Mumbai ruled in favor of ATA Freightline, setting aside service tax demands for logistics services from April 2015 to June 2017. Full details of the case.

No Service Tax on Reimbursement for Actual Costs as its not a taxable service

August 23, 2024 834 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Mumbai overturned the service tax demand on Hindustan Construction Co., ruling that reimbursements to group companies do not constitute taxable services.

Extended Limitation Period Requires Clear Allegations of wilful misstatement, suppression of facts, fraud, or collusion

August 22, 2024 897 Views 0 comment Print

Calcutta High Court dismisses petition challenging a CGST order. Petitioners directed to seek remedy through the Central Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal.

Extended Limitation cannot be extended if SCN silent about Fraud or Misstatement

August 22, 2024 1287 Views 0 comment Print

The Calcutta High Court ruled on a delayed service tax appeal, dismissing a notice issued against Naresh Kumar & Co., questioning the validity under extended limitation.

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