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Service Tax : The Bombay High Court ruled that legal services provided by an advocate to a partnership firm of advocates are exempt under servic...
Service Tax : The Court held that booking speakers for an event does not amount to event management. Participation or facilitation alone cannot ...
Service Tax : Supreme Court reaffirms Service Tax applicability on export cargo handling services by Airports Authority of India under Airport S...
Service Tax : Under India’s earlier service tax regime, legal services initially enjoyed complete exemption from taxation. This position chang...
Service Tax : CESTAT rules that affiliation fees collected by universities are statutory functions, not taxable services. Service tax demand and...
Service Tax : [Screening, Diagnosis & Management of Mucormycosis (black fungus)] Mucormycosis – if uncared for – may turn fatal ...
Service Tax : Chartered Accountants Association, Jalandhar has made a representation to FM regarding Misuse of Official Position by making rovin...
Service Tax : Officers of CGST Delhi North Commissionerate have arrested one Director of a Company for evasion of Service Tax. The Company had...
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...
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...
Service Tax : CESTAT Bangalore held that excavation, extraction, grading, and sorting of iron ore are mining-related activities taxable only und...
Service Tax : The Tribunal held that service tax cannot be demanded again when the service provider has already collected and deposited the tax....
Service Tax : CESTAT Bangalore held that screening and grading of iron ore are mining-related activities covered under the taxable category of M...
Service Tax : The dispute concerned denial of 67% abatement on construction and works contract services involving supply of materials. CESTAT he...
Service Tax : The Tribunal held that Cenvat credit is available only in relation to taxable services and not for trading activities. The case wa...
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...
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-...
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...
Service Tax : Appointment of Common Adjudicating Authority (CAA) in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Subhash Earthmovers vide Order No. 05/2023-Ser...
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...
Attached Due Date compliance Chart contains due date for the Financial Year 2016-17 in respect of the following :- TDS/ TCS Payment and Return Advance Income Tax Income Tax Return ROC Annual Return Excise Payment Excise Return ER-1, ER-4 & ER-8 Service Tax Payment IND/ Partnership Service Tax Payment (Others) Service Tax Return ESI Payment […]
In 2009 the Union Budget introduced service tax for advocates & legal services on receipts basis with effect from 01/09/2009 to 31/03/2012.Govt impose service tax on services provided or to be provided to any business entity, in relation to advice, consultancy or assistance in any branch of law excluding appearance before any court, tribunal or authority and the term ‘business entity’ has been defined to include association of persons, body of individuals, company or firm but does not include an individual.
Delhi High Court has directed by its order to Union of India that till the next date the operation of the execution of para 1(a) (i) (b) of Notification No.9/2016-ST, para 1(a) (iii) and (b) (iii) of Notification No.18/2016-ST and para 2 (1) (a) of Notification No.19/2016-ST be and is hereby stayed and the Respondents are directed to continue the reverse charge mechanism for payment of service tax for Senior Advocates under Notification No.30/2012-ST.
We are summarizing herewith the changes in Service Tax and Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 that are effective from April 1, 2016 for easy digest: A: Service Tax leviable under Reverse Charge on any services provided by Government or Local Authority to a Business Entity w.e.f April 1, 2016
The petitioner is a designated Senior Advocate practising in this Court and challenges notifications bearing nos. 9/2016 and 18/2016, both dated March 1, 2016, seeking to amend previous notifications of June 30, 2012 pertaining to service tax.
Honble Gujarat High Court has vide its order dated 30th March, 2016 in the case of Percy Cawas Kavina vs. UOI in Special Civil Application No. 4926 of 2016 directed an ad-interim stay of Notification No. 18/2016-ST Dated 01/03/2016and Notification No. 9/2016–ST Dated-01/03/2016 with respect to the levy of service-tax on senior advocates as proposed
Where there is change in the liability or extent of liability of a person required to pay tax as recipient of service notified under sub-section (2) of section 68 of the Act, in case service has been provided and the invoice issued before the date of such change, but payment has not been made as on such date, the point of taxation shall be the date of issuance of invoice.
The Union Budget has introduced two new cesses in the name and style of Infrastructure Cess and Krishi Kalyan Cess, former in the nature of excise duty and later as Service Tax. Clean Energy Cess has been renamed as Clean Environment Cess while enhancing the cess by 100 percent. These cesses, in nutshell are as follows:
CESTAT, Mumbai held that reimbursement of the cost of obtaining and employing resources/certain expenses incurred by the Appellant on the behalf of the Group Companies cannot be regarded as consideration flowing to the Appellant towards the taxable service provided by the Appellant rather the receipts are towards the reimbursements of the cost/expenses incurred by the assessee in terms of the cost sharing agreement with the Group Companies.
In many cases the proposals for filing SLP are being sent to the Board much after the time limit of 15 days available with the Commissionerate is over. In fact in some cases such proposals have been received in the Board after the time limit of 90 days is over. Such delays result in the dismissal of SLPs on the grounds of delay.
