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The income-tax department has served service tax notices on IPL sponsors DLF, Adidas and Religare. Sources said the tax demand on DLF, the title sponsor which is supposed to pay Rs 40 crore a year as sponsorship fee for five years, was Rs 4.8 crore for the league's first edition in 2008. Adidas and Religare sponsored teams....

The Custom Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal said in a recent ruling that the wording of the Act is such that exporters of services such as software and business process outsourcing companies cannot claim credit for taxes paid on inputs used by them. ...

In the midst of a tax probe into finances of IPL, authorities have issued notices to several sponsors of the first edition of the Twenty20 event, including DLF, Adidas and Religare for non-payment of service tax. The notices have asked as to why no service tax has been paid for the sponsorship deal for the first edition of IPL, held in 20...

The Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India (CREDAI) further questioned the issue of service tax being brought out at a time when the goods and service tax is expected to be introduced in 10-12 months and has submitted to the Ministry of Finance, a representation on the provisions of the Finance Bill, 2010....

Accounting regulator ICAI has called for excluding land value from the proposed service tax on the realty sector, saying land is a state subject. “When a prospective buyer makes an advance payment to the builder against booking of a specified unit in a building, that part also includes a price towards the land on which the building is b...

An eye on compensation for revenue losses and tough posturing have marked positions taken by some states as they buckle down for another round of negotiations on the transition to a goods and services tax (GST). The fear of losing autonomy over levy of taxes has led to some states striking a tough stance against the GST architecture sugge...

The Urban Development Minister, Mr Jaipal Reddy, will soon take up with the Finance Ministry, the contentious issue of service tax imposition in the real estate sector proposed in the Budget. This assumes significance as the service tax imposition can translate into a three-four per cent increase in the cost of under-construction apartmen...

Home buyers and property developers need not worry about being levied a service tax if they cannot procure a completion certificate from the local authority. The government could allow some independent authority to certify that the property is complete....

he Budget proposal to charge 10 per cent service tax on air travel may not be rolled back, as the government expects to raise between Rs 600 and Rs 1,000 crore annually through the measure. Maintaining that the government plans to explore new avenues to mop up resources, a top official said, "at the moment it seems highly unlikely that th...

Industry body Assocham has asked the government to roll back the service tax proposed on real estate developers at the time of construction, as it would increase the tax burden on home buyers and impact the recovery of the sector. The government, in the Budget, said that real estate complexes will attract service tax, unless the entire co...