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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 687 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 471 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 561 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 1449 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 957 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 1455 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 75495 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 3069 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 2169 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 2109 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


Service Tax Demand Quashed as Iron Ore Excavation and Grading Held to Be Mining Service

Service Tax : CESTAT Bangalore held that excavation, extraction, grading, and sorting of iron ore are mining-related activities taxable only und...

June 2, 2026 123 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Sets Aside Sponsorship Service Tax Demand as Tax Was Already Paid by Service Provider

Service Tax : The Tribunal held that service tax cannot be demanded again when the service provider has already collected and deposited the tax....

June 2, 2026 96 Views 0 comment Print

Service Tax Demand Set Aside as Screening & Grading of Iron Ore was Mining Service not BAS

Service Tax : CESTAT Bangalore held that screening and grading of iron ore are mining-related activities covered under the taxable category of M...

June 2, 2026 126 Views 0 comment Print

67% Abatement Cannot Be Denied Merely Because It Was Not Claimed in ST-3 Returns: CESTAT Kolkata

Service Tax : The dispute concerned denial of 67% abatement on construction and works contract services involving supply of materials. CESTAT he...

June 1, 2026 141 Views 0 comment Print

Cenvat Credit Reversal Upheld as Trading Activity Was Not a Taxable Service: CESTAT Bangalore

Service Tax : The Tribunal held that Cenvat credit is available only in relation to taxable services and not for trading activities. The case wa...

June 1, 2026 87 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 1974 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 948 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 798 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 855 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 2136 Views 0 comment Print


Providing loans to borrowers by the bank does not amount to service

August 21, 2021 1410 Views 0 comment Print

This implies that services by way of loan do come within the purview of supply, however, that has been considered as an ‘exempted supply’ in the Service Exemption Notification.

Mere dispatch of order cannot be considered as service

August 18, 2021 4638 Views 0 comment Print

Mere dispatch of the order cannot be considered as service. The period of 2 months for filing the appeal has to reckon not from the date of order announced but from the date of receipt of said order by the assessee in terms of Section 35 of Central Excise Act, 1944.

CENVAT credit allowable on lift which is capital goods: CESTAT Bangalore

August 18, 2021 1809 Views 0 comment Print

Divya Sree R O W Projects Vs Commissioner of Central Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) After considering the submissions of both the parties and perusal of the material on record, I find that when the passenger lift was imported, it was classified under Chapter 84 and the Classification was accepted by the Department and once the classification […]

CENVAT Credit eligibility cannot be questioned at the Time of claiming of Refund

August 17, 2021 2715 Views 0 comment Print

Microsoft Research Lab India Private Limited Vs Commissioner of Central Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) CESTAT find that the appellant has given detailed justification for each of the impugned services involved in these two appeals with judicial precedents and the impugned services have been used by the appellant for rendering the output services. Further, I find that […]

No interest for period of delay in filing Service Tax Refund Claim

August 15, 2021 936 Views 0 comment Print

M/s. Sivamurugan Chit Fund (P) Limited Vs Commissioner of G.S.T. and Central Excise (CESTAT Chennai) There is no doubt that Section 11B ibid. prescribes the period of limitation for filing the refund claim, but admittedly here, the application for refund was filed on 19.01.2018; the date of the judgement of the Hon’ble Supreme Court is […]

Suppression of facts has to be “Wilful” for recovery of CENVAT Credit

August 11, 2021 8418 Views 0 comment Print

Emaar MGF Land Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Central Excise and CGST (CESTAT Delhi) M/s. Emaar MGF Land Ltd. (Appellant) has filed the current appeal for quashing Order-In-Original No. DLI-SVTAX-001-COM-054-16-17 dated March 31, 2017 (OIO) which confirmed recovery of Central Value Added Tax Credit “CENVAT Credit) along with interest and penalty under Section 73(1) of the […]

Service tax excess paid and which could not be adjusted owing to transition to GST is refundable to assessee and limitation cannot be cited for denial

August 10, 2021 1140 Views 0 comment Print

Manoj Vijay Vs Commissioner Central Goods And Service Tax (CESTAT Delhi) Since post July 01, 2017, the applicability of Rule 6 (4A) of Central Excise Rules was no more available to the appellant, the excess amount already got deposited by the appellant at the time when Service Tax liability for the said quarter had not […]

Giving of loans by Banks to Borrowers is not a service

August 9, 2021 3216 Views 0 comment Print

State Bank of Patiala Vs Commissioner, Central Excise and Central Goods and Service Tax (CESTAT Delhi) Appellant urges that the show cause notice is misconceived, as prima facie giving of loans is not an output service, rather money in real terms somewhat akin to goods, goes out of the bank when the loan is advanced. […]

Mere Delay in debiting CENVAT A/c will not defeat substantial right of refund

August 8, 2021 1068 Views 0 comment Print

Thorogood Associates India Private Limited Vs Commissioner Of Central Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) In present case, the appellant has complied with the conditions prescribed under para 2(h) of the Notification No.27/2012 and debited the CENVAT account on 31.3.2018 though there was some delay in debiting the CENVAT account but the delay in debiting the CENVAT account […]

LLPs not liable to pay service tax under RCM

August 6, 2021 5523 Views 0 comment Print

The Appellant contended that, being an LLP is not covered in definition of ‘body corporate’ and hence not liable to pay service tax under reverse charge mechanism (RCM), as applicable to a body corporate in terms of Notification No. 30/2012-ST dated June, 2012.

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