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Service Tax- Electricity meter installed in consumers’ premises and hire charges collected – whether covered under exemption for transmission and distribution of electricity

Liability to pay service tax on commission paid to Foreign Service provider arises only with effect from 18.4.2006

Constitutional validity of levy of service tax on commercial renting and amendment with retrospective effect, i.e., 1.6.2007

Constitutional validity of the Parliament to levy Service Tax on financial leasing services including equipment leasing and hire-purchase

Scope of the expression ‘job worker’

Cab operators in Gurgaon and NCR under scanner for suspected service tax evasion

Service Tax – CENVAT Credit – ‘Rent-a-cab’ service utilized for transportation of food articles from centralized canteen to current factory premises

Denial of Cenvat on GTA service just because duty on goods been paid on assessable value determined u/s. 4A of Excise Act

Service tax on construction- Gujarat HC issues notice to Centre on service tax
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Johnny and Service Tax Refund [Series- II]-Part 3- ‘Conditions Relating To Port Services’
Latest Service Tax News India
Service tax in India is the tax which is collected by the government from service providers for providing services. The person liable to pay service tax could be a service provider or the recipient of service or any person responsible for providing services. Generally, the service tax is required to be paid on all the services except for those provided in the negative list. All the service providers together with the union and state government providers and private sector service providers too are liable for paying service tax. Services Tax Act and Service Tax Rules together with the Finance Act, 2016 has provided an increase in service tax from 12.36% to 14%. This revised service tax rate would comprise of Education Cess and Secondary and Higher Education Cess.
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