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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 1035 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 108 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


Cenvat credit when portion of output service not liable to service tax

September 9, 2020 1479 Views 0 comment Print

Metlife India Insurance Company Limited Vs Commissioner of Central Excise (CESTAT Bangalore) CESTAT Bengaluru has held that Cenvat credit of service tax paid under reverse charge mechanism for availing services of insurance agents was available in a case when a portion of the premium amount (consideration towards output service), in case of ULIP policies, was […]

Service Tax Refund rejection based on Principles of Unjust Enrichment justified

September 8, 2020 3624 Views 0 comment Print

The issue under consideration is regarding rejection of claim for refund of the service tax under Section 11B.

Service Tax not payable when paid to vendor instead of paying to Govt. under RCM

September 4, 2020 5022 Views 0 comment Print

Mahanadi Coalfields Limited Vs Commissioner of CGST & CX (CESTAT Kolkata) The only issue involved in this appeal is whether the appellant is liable to deposit service tax under Security Service under reverse charge when the entire service tax amount has been reimbursed to the service provider who has deposited the same with the Govt. […]

Rejection of Form SVLDRS-1 justified if Assessee not declares all his tax dues

August 31, 2020 1491 Views 0 comment Print

Chaque Jour Hr Services Pvt. Ltd. Vs. Union of India & Ors. (Delhi High Court) Section 129 nowhere contemplates fragmented settlement of tax dues. The discharge certificate issued under Section 126 with respect to the amount payable under Sabka Vishwas (Legacy Dispute Resolution) Scheme, 2019 (SVLDRS’) is considered to be conclusive as to the matter […]

HC allows Taxpayer to apply to correct information furnished in Form SVLDRS-1

August 28, 2020 1167 Views 0 comment Print

Urban Systems Vs Union of India (Gauhati High Court) It is an agreed position of the parties that the petitioner may make an application to the appropriate respondent authorities to consider the claim of benefit under the Sabka Vishwas (Legacy Dispute Resolution) Scheme, 2019 by allowing the petitioner to make necessary correction in the information […]

CESTAT explains Service Tax on Site Formation Services

August 27, 2020 5409 Views 0 comment Print

M/s. Sem Construction Vs C.C.E. & S.T. (CESTAT Ahmedabad) Brief facts of the case are that the appellant had been awarded a contract under agreement dated 01.04.2011 by M/s. Archelean Chemical Private Limited at Rann of Kutch for job of “metal spreading for supply un­course black Trap Rubble stone” and its spreading/dressing along the outer […]

Consider Revised Amount as Quantified Amount to Test Eligibility for SVLDR Scheme: HC

August 26, 2020 915 Views 0 comment Print

The issue under consideration is whether revised amount can be taken as the quantified amount to test the eligibility for Sabka Vikas (Legacy Dispute Resolution) Scheme, 2019 (SVLDR)?

Who is Service Recipient – Exporter’s Bank or Exporter himself

August 26, 2020 4011 Views 2 comments Print

Service tax was first introduced in India in 1994 and was only levied on 3 services. Gradually, this net kept on widening and more and more services were added to the list of taxable services. In 2012, India moved from charging Service tax on specified services i.e. positive list regime to all services except for […]

Declaration filed by petitioner in Form SVLDRS-1 is final: HC

August 19, 2020 1176 Views 0 comment Print

Jagadish Advertising Vs Designated Committee (Karnataka High Court) The petitioner in this petition has sought for quashing of the statement issued by the Designated Committee in Form Nos. SVLDRS-2 & SVLDRS-3 and is seeking for a direction to the Designated Committee to accept the declaration made by him in Form No.SVLDRS- 1 as final. In […]

Gujarat HC: Services by subsidiary to its foreign holding company qualifies as exports

August 14, 2020 6072 Views 0 comment Print

In a recent judgment passed by Gujarat High court in case of Engineering India Private Limited wherein the Hon’ble Gujarat High court held that Service provided by Indian subsidiary to it 100% holding company  abroad is export. Summary : Case law  : Linde Engineering India Private Limited Other vs. Union of India [R/Special Civil Application […]

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