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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


Service tax refund cannot be denied on Legal Export of goods although procured through illegal means

August 4, 2021 1608 Views 0 comment Print

V.V. Minerals [100% EOU] Vs Commissioner of GST & CE (CESTAT Chennai) Unless there Is any provision to the contrary, the charging sections of the tax laws apply to illegal acts as they apply to legal acts and therefore tax is leviable notwithstanding that action for the illegal actions may be taken under some other […]

Period of Limitation increased to 18 Months w.e.f. 28.05.2012

August 4, 2021 4581 Views 0 comment Print

Krishi Upaj Mandi Samiti Baran Vs Commissioner, CGST & Central Excise Division (CESTAT Delhi) There is no dispute that the relevant date in the present case is 25.11.2012. Prior to this date on 28.05.2012, section 73(1) of the Finance Act was amended and it was provided that the Central Excise Officer could issue a notice […]

SC quashes Service Tax Demand on G. D. Goenka World Institute

August 3, 2021 2973 Views 0 comment Print

G. D. Goenka World Institute Vs Union of India (Supreme Court of India) This appeal takes exception to the judgment and orders dated 06.12.2018 passed by the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Tribunal at Chandigarh vide Interim Order No. IO/60/2018 [DB] in Appeal bearing Diary No. 602532016, whereby the prayer to excuse the appellant from […]

Refund cannot be rejected on flimsy grounds

July 29, 2021 1956 Views 0 comment Print

Nupur Viniyog Private Limited Vs Commissioner of CGST & CX (CESTAT Kolkata) M/s. Nupur Viniyog Private Limited (Appellant) filed refund of Service Tax paid on the taxable specified services for export of goods made under Bills of Export. Order-in-Original (OIO)- Sanctioned refund. Being aggrieved, Department filed appeal before Commissioner (Appeals). Order-in-Appeal (OIA)– Allowed Department’s appeal […]

LLP not required to pay service tax under reverse charge mechanism

July 28, 2021 3690 Views 0 comment Print

SRL Advisors LLP Vs Commissioner of Central Tax Delhi (CESTAT Delhi) Rule 2(bc) of Service Tax Rules, refers to the meaning of ‘body corporate’ in Section 2(7) of the Companies Act, wherein any other body corporate which includes a LLP is specifically excluded from the definition of body corporate. Thus I hold that the appellant […]

One-to-one correlation between output & input service not required for claiming refund

July 28, 2021 5253 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT held that, there is no need to establish one-to-one correlation between output service exported and input service used in such services.

No Service Tax on liquidated damages recovered for not adhering to time limits mentioned in contract

July 26, 2021 4380 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT held that, no service tax is to be imposed on liquidated damages recovered for not adhering to time limits mentioned in the contract as the same would not be covered in ‘Declared Services’ mentioned under Section 66E(e) of the Finance Act, 1994

No service tax on forfeiture of earnest money deposit & liquidated damages

July 26, 2021 2952 Views 0 comment Print

Read about CESTAT Chennai ruling exempting service tax on forfeiture of earnest money deposit and liquidated damages. Understand legal implications and clarifications under Section 66E(e) of Finance Act.

CENVAT credit eligible on ‘services related to setting up of a factory’

July 26, 2021 3516 Views 0 comment Print

Pepsico India Holdings (Pvt.) Ltd Vs Commissioner of Central Tax (CESTAT Hyderabad) The department wants to deny benefit of the CENVAT credit on the ground that ‘services related to setting up of a factory’ which were specifically included prior to 1.4.2011 were no longer specifically included post 1.4.2011. We find that the definition of ‘input […]

GTA Services: Carting Challan is not equivalent to consignment note

July 26, 2021 3864 Views 1 comment Print

Hon’ble CESTAT, Delhi observed that Carting Challan is not equivalent to a Consignment note. Carting Challan is only for internal control of forest department whereas a Consignment Note is a negotiable instrument in which the transporter is bound to deliver the goods to a bonafide holder of title.

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