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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 813 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 537 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 1617 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 1032 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 75699 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 2166 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Audit Detection, Non-Filing of Returns Alone Don’t Prove Tax Evasion: CESTAT Chennai

Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai set aside the service tax demand, holding the extended limitation period was not invocable as suppression with inte...

July 18, 2026 81 Views 0 comment Print

CENVAT Credit on Set Top Boxes Allowed as Inputs to Dish TV: CESTAT Allahabad

Service Tax : CESTAT Allahabad set aside interest demand, holding set top boxes qualified as inputs and full CENVAT credit was admissible on rec...

July 17, 2026 51 Views 0 comment Print

CENVAT Credit on Imported Dredger Allowed as Input Under Rule 2(k): CESTAT Hyderabad

Service Tax : CESTAT Hyderabad allowed CENVAT credit on an imported dredger as input under Rule 2(k), set aside the credit demand and disposed o...

July 17, 2026 54 Views 0 comment Print

Performance Bank Guarantee Invocation Quashed for Unrelated Earlier Contract Claim: Calcutta HC

Service Tax : Calcutta HC quashed invocation of a performance bank guarantee for recovery under an earlier contract and directed refund of the g...

July 17, 2026 57 Views 0 comment Print

Service Tax Demand on Government Works Contracts Set Aside on Limitation: CESTAT Kolkata

Service Tax :  CESTAT Kolkata set aside Service Tax demand, interest and penalty, holding issues in favour of the appellant on exemption or lim...

July 17, 2026 90 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 972 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 840 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 2238 Views 0 comment Print


No Service Tax Liability on Incentives for Mutual Fund Promotion: CESTAT Ahmedabad

September 16, 2024 678 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Ahmedabad exempts NJ India Invest Pvt. Ltd. from service tax on mutual fund distribution incentives, magazine ads, and vocational training for sub-distributors.

Mediclaim Processing Charges Exempt from Service Tax: CESTAT Ruling

September 14, 2024 1338 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Delhi rules Mediclaim processing charges as part of healthcare services, exempting them from service tax in Life Care Hospital Ltd. vs CGST Commissioner case.

Transportation services bundled with other activities do not fall under cargo handling services for tax

September 14, 2024 1038 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Kolkata rules on Calcutta Industrial Supply’s service tax liability under Cargo Handling vs Transportation services, clarifying bundling of services.

CESTAT Quashes Service Tax Demand Against Jharkhand State Cricket Association

September 14, 2024 750 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 816 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 765 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 840 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 555 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 663 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 882 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.

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