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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 : CESTAT Chandigarh allowed CENVAT credit on DICGC insurance premium, following the Larger Bench ruling that it is an input service ...
Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai set aside the service tax demand as time-barred, holding the Department failed to establish wilful intent to evade ...
Service Tax : Supreme Court reversed the programme producer service demand, restricted the first show cause notice to the normal limitation peri...
Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai set aside the service tax demand, holding common input service credit admissible under Rule 6(5) despite abatement ...
Service Tax : CESTAT Delhi allowed refund of reversed CENVAT credit, holding unjust enrichment was not attracted as the service tax burden was n...
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...
It is proposed to insert clause (zzzzo) in Section 65(105) of the Act so as to define taxable service as “service provided or to be provided by any hospital, nursing home or multi-specialty clinic to an employee of any business entity, in relation to health check-up or preventive care, where the payment for such check-up or preventive care is made by such business entity directly to such hospital, nursing home or multi-specialty clinic”
It is proposed to insert clause (zzzzn)in Section 65(105) of the Finance Act,1994(as amended from time to time)[hereinafter referred to as “the Act”] so as to define taxable service as “any service provided or to be provided to any person, by any other person, for promotion, marketing, organizing or in any other manner assisting in organising games of chance, including lottery, Bingo or Lotto, in whatever form or by whatever name called , whether or not conducted through internet or electronic networks”
In a relief to insurance companies, the finance ministry has revoked its demand asking insurers to pay service tax on commission they receive from reinsurance companies. The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has clarified that service tax cannot be levied on the reinsurance commission because an insurance company does not provide any service to a reinsurance company.
The Union finance minister had introduced the Finance Bill, 2010 in the Lok Sabha on February 26, 2010 and proposed to tax 8 new services. On May 8, 2010, the President gave her consent to the Finance Bill and thus the Finance Act, 1994 (14 of 2010) has come into effect from that date. SERVICE TAX IS BEING IMPOSED ON THE FOLLOWING SPECIFIED SERVICES:
Generally marine containers are temporarily brought into a customs territory and have to be re-exported within a specified period. Normally, a Full Container Load is taken out of the port and the activity of stuffing or de-stuffing takes place at the premises of the exporter/importer.
Prices of residential flats are likely to go up by 4% in a couple of months, notwithstanding the recent relaxation in the service tax. The latest Union Budget had imposed a 3% service tax on builders, while the state would impose VAT of 1% on a flat’s price.
Recently in the case of Kbace Tech Pvt. Ltd. v. CCE/CST CESTAT ruled that the refund or CENVAT credit on input services is allowed only if the services are consumed in the output service. It is held that the Board’s Circular No. 120/01/2010-ST, dated 19-1-10 does not have the effect of amending the statute and cannot be seen as authorizing sanction of refund if the credit of service tax does not relate to services consumed for providing the output service.
Further, section 67(4) of the Finance Act, 1994 provides that the expression “gross amount charged” includes payment made by way of issue of credit! debit notes or by entries in the books of account, where the transaction is with any Associate Enterprise. Considering these provisions, it has now been clarified that in case of services received from Associate Enterprise, CENVAT credit of service tax can be availed in cases where the payment towards services provided is deemed to have been made to the service provider by way of book adjustments! issuance of debit or credit notes and the service tax has been paid to the credit of Government Account.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the accounting regulator, is looking to consult with the finance ministry to simplify the structure of service tax on construction activities and push three methods of calculating the tax.
Matter likely to be litigated, with officials agreeing the law was unclear in the earlier editions of the IPL. The Union finance ministry may have to battle it out in court with the sponsors of the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament to make them comply with its service tax payment demands.
