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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...
Though levy of service tax on domestic air travel is negative, given the rebound in air travel, the players can fully pass on the impact to customers through hike in fares. The budget proposes to increase the scope of air passenger transport service is being expanded to include domestic journeys and international journeys in any class from the earlier provision of taxing only international journey in any class other than economy class.
Following eight new services are proposed to be introduced: Services of promoting, marketing or organizing of games of chance, including lottery [Section 65 (105) (zzzzn)]. Health services, namely, health check up undertaken by hospitals or medical establishments for the employees of business entities; and health services provided under health insurance schemes offered by insurance companies.[Section 65 (105) (zzzzo)]
Bench enumerated the following principles to be kept in mind while considering the applications for stay or waiver of pre-deposit under Section 35F of the Act. 1) The applications for stay should not be disposed of in a routine manner unmindful of the consequences flowing from the order requiring the assessee to deposit full or part of the demand;
SECTION73 (3) of Finance Act, 1994, provides for non-serving of notice under Section 73(1) by department in such cases where service tax has been paid before issuance of notice. However, there is no clarity whether department can still initiate proceedings for imposing penalty under Section 76 or 78. Though, CBEC clarified sometime back that all such cases where tax has been paid before issuance of notice can be closed without imposing penalty,
vocational training institute means a commercial training or coaching centre which provides vocational training or coaching that impart skills to enable the trainee to seek employment or undertake self-employment, directly after such training or coaching;
Certain New Services to be brought within Service Tax Purview.Legislative Changes to Plug Revenue Leakages to Remove Distortions and to Clarify Certain Doubts.Process Of Refund of Accumulated Credit to Exporters of Services to Be Made Easy. Accredited News Agencies Providing Online Feed to be Exempted From Service Tax. Net Revenue Gain of Rs. 3,000 Crore Estimated From Service Tax Proposals.
Exempts the taxable service providing packaged or canned software, intended for single use and packed accordingly, for the purpose specified in item (v) of clause (zzzze) of sub-section 105 of section 65 of the said Finance Act, from the whole of service tax, subject to the following conditions
Finance Bill 2010 has made an amendment in the definition of the taxable service ‘Renting of immovable property’ [section 65 (105) (zzzz)] to provide explicitly that the activity of ‘renting’ itself is a taxable service. This change is being given retrospective effect from 01.06.2007.
India includes the installations, structures and vessels located in the continental shelf of India and the exclusive economic zone of India, for the purposes of prospecting or extraction or production of mineral oil and natural gas and supply thereof.
the taxes levied by any Government on any passenger travelling by air, if shown separately on the ticket, or the invoice for such ticket, issued to the passenger