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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 825 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 540 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 624 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 1626 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 1035 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 1467 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 75711 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 3114 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 2220 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 2175 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


CESTAT Allows CENVAT Credit on Deposit Insurance Premium to Bank

Service Tax : CESTAT Chandigarh allowed CENVAT credit on DICGC insurance premium, following the Larger Bench ruling that it is an input service ...

July 21, 2026 66 Views 0 comment Print

No Extended Limitation Where Service Tax Liability Was Legally Debatable: CESTAT Chennai

Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai set aside the service tax demand as time-barred, holding the Department failed to establish wilful intent to evade ...

July 21, 2026 48 Views 0 comment Print

Extended Limitation & Penalty Not Invocable in Interpretational Service Tax Disputes: SC

Service Tax : Supreme Court reversed the programme producer service demand, restricted the first show cause notice to the normal limitation peri...

July 21, 2026 63 Views 0 comment Print

Service Tax Demand on Common CENVAT Credit & Abatement Quashed: CESTAT Chennai

Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai set aside the service tax demand, holding common input service credit admissible under Rule 6(5) despite abatement ...

July 21, 2026 51 Views 0 comment Print

Refund Allowed as Unjust Enrichment Not Established for Reversed CENVAT Credit: CESTAT Delhi

Service Tax : CESTAT Delhi allowed refund of reversed CENVAT credit, holding unjust enrichment was not attracted as the service tax burden was n...

July 21, 2026 72 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 2040 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 981 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 843 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 897 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 2250 Views 0 comment Print


Notification No. 10/2010-Service Tax Dated- 27th February, 2010

February 27, 2010 777 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 10/2010-Service Tax Seeks to exempt the taxable service provided by a Central or State Seed Testing Laboratory and Central or State Seed Certification Agency notified under Seeds Act, 1966 from technical testing and analysis services and technical inspection and certification service.

Notification No. 09/2010-Service Tax, Dated- 27.02.2010

February 27, 2010 2468 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 09/2010-Service Tax, New Delhi, the 27th February, 2010. In the said notification, in the Table, against S.No.1 1 for the entry in column (3), the following entry shall be substituted, namely:- “Transport of goods by rail.” This notification shall come into force on the first day of April, 2010.

Service tax notification exempting taxable service provided in relation to transport of specified goods by rail

February 27, 2010 1197 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 08/2010-Service Tax Central Government hereby exempts the taxable service provided to any person in relation to transport of goods, the description of which is specified in column (2) of the Table below, by rail as referred to in sub-clause (zzzp) of clause (105) of section 65 of the Finance Act, from the whole of the service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the Finance Act.

Service tax notification rescinding Notification No. 33/2009 dated 01.09.2009

February 27, 2010 1863 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 07/2010-Service Tax,- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) (hereinafter referred to as the Finance Act), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby rescinds the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No.33/2009-Service Tax, dated the 1st September, 2009, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 627 (E), dated the 1st September, 2009, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such rescission.

Service tax circular amending rule 3 of Export of Services Rules, 2005 to change the category of certain services from one to the other

February 27, 2010 2897 Views 0 comment Print

For the purposes of this rule 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.

Service Tax notification seeking to rescind Notification No. 01/2000 dated 09.02.2000

February 27, 2010 606 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 05/2010-Service Tax Central Government hereby rescinds the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 01/2000- Service Tax, dated 9th February, 2000, published vide number G.S.R. 98 (E), dated 9th February, 2000, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such rescission.

Service tax notification expanding list of items eligible for exemption when transported by road

February 27, 2010 1833 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 04/2010-Service Tax Central Government hereby makes the following amendment in the notification No.33/2004-Service Tax, dated the 3rd December, 2004 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 788 (E), dated the 3rd December, 2004 , namely:-

Service tax notification: Modify the meaning of vocational training institute

February 27, 2010 2687 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 03/2010-Service Tax,- Seeks to amend Notification No. 24/2004 dated 10.09.2004 so as to substitute Explanation (i) to modify the meaning of vocational training institute as those institutes or centres affiliated to the National Council for Vocational Training notified under the Apprentices Act, 1961.

ST notification- Seeks to exempt the right to use packaged or canned software from whole of service tax subject to certain conditions

February 27, 2010 462 Views 0 comment Print

(i) the document providing the right to use such software, by whatever name called, if any, is packed along with the software; (ii) the manufacturer, duplicator, or the person holding the copyright to software has paid the appropriate duties of excise on the entire amount received from the buyer; and (iii) the benefit under notification No. 17/2010– Central Excise, dated the 27th February ,2010 is not availed of by the manufacturer, duplicator or the person holding the copyright to software.

Amendment in Service tax Act, Rules & Notifications made by Budget 2010

February 26, 2010 2192 Views 0 comment Print

Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994 is being amended to,- a) insert an explanation in sub-section (3) of Section 73 to clarify that no penalty shall be imposed where service tax along with interest has been paid before issuance of notice by the department under this sub-section. b) provide definition of the term ‘business entity’ to include an association of persons, body of individuals, company or firm but not an individual.

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