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Availment of Exemptions Under section 93 of Finance Act, 1994, the Government is empowered to exempt generally or subject to such conditions as may be specified in the notification, taxable service of any specified description from the whole or any part of the service tax leviable thereon. During the course of this performance audit we [&...

Availment/Utilisation of Cenvat Credit A provider of taxable services can, in terms of rule 4 of the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 avail credit of excise duty paid on inputs and capital goods and service tax paid on any input service. The credit can be utilised towards payment of service tax subject to the fulfilment of […]...

Section 67 of the Finance Act, 1994, envisages that where the provision of service is for a consideration in money, value of taxable service shall be the gross amount charged for such service. During the course of this performance audit we observed 145 cases of non/short-payment of service tax of Rs.  44.74 crore. Out of […]...

We are happy to inform that the eighth Workshop in the above series is being organised on the Theme Swachh Bharat Cess and Cenvat Credits under Excise and Service Tax and their relevance in GST on Thursday, 26 November, 2015 from 09:30 am till 01:20 pm at PHD House, New Delhi. The Workshop will be followed by lunch...

Swachh Bharat Cess will come into effect from 15th November 2015, at the rate of 0.5% on all services, which are presently liable to service tax. This will translate into a tax of 50 paisa only on every one hundred rupees worth of taxable services. The proceeds from this cess will be used for financing and promoting Swachh Bharat initiati...

No Service Tax on Transfer of Immovable Property if entire consideration received after issue of Occupancy Certificate. In order to resolve a long standing issue relating to levy of Service Tax on sale of flats/dwellings etc. after issue of occupancy certificate but before issue of completion certificate in areas under the jurisdiction of...

 1. (a) Assessee can e-file Service Tax Return (ST-3) for the period April, 2015 to September, 2015 now through offline or online version. The last date of filing the ST-3 return, for the return period April, 2015 to September, 2015 is 25th October, 2015. However, to avoid congestion and inconvenience in the last minute, assesses [&helli...

The Central Board of Excise and Customs had issued detailed guidelines in 2009 to its field formations on conducting detailed manual scrutiny of service tax returns. In view of the legal changes brought about by the Negative List based taxation of services and administrative changes like creation of separate Commissionrates for Audit etc,...

It is clarified that these ‘service charges’ collected by the restaurants/hotels/eateries are retained by the restaurants/hotels/eateries and are not ‘service tax’ imposed by the Government. ...

Mega Exemption under Service Tax and Point of Taxation Rules, 2011 – Relevance in GST Regime  We are happy to inform that the Fourth Workshop under the series is being organised on the theme “Mega Exemption under Service Tax and Point of Taxation Rules, 2011 – Its relevance in GST Regime on Friday,  17 July, 2015 [&hellip...