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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 Chennai set aside the service tax demand, holding the extended limitation period was not invocable as suppression with inte...
Service Tax : CESTAT Allahabad set aside interest demand, holding set top boxes qualified as inputs and full CENVAT credit was admissible on rec...
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...
Service Tax : Calcutta HC quashed invocation of a performance bank guarantee for recovery under an earlier contract and directed refund of the g...
Service Tax : CESTAT Kolkata set aside Service Tax demand, interest and penalty, holding issues in favour of the appellant on exemption or lim...
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...
The Hon’ble CESTAT, Ahmedabad relying upon the judgments of Chandrapur Magnet Wires (P.) Ltd. Vs. CCE [1996 taxmann.com 736 (SC)] and Leotronics Scales (P.) Ltd. Vs. CCE [Final Order No. 50894 of 2015, dated 23-1-2015], held that when the Appellant has reversed the Cenvat credit amount inadvertently availed earlier along with the interest from the date of availment upto the date of reversal of credit, benefit of abatement cannot be denied.
Hon’ble CESTAT, New Delhi relying upon the plethora of judgments and by observing various provisions in this regard, held that in the instant case, buyer has borne risk of damage to goods during transit and freight charges were an integral part of price of goods sold by the Respondent to its buyers.
CESTAT, Allahabad relying upon plethora of judicial pronouncements held that in the instant case, BSNL has already paid Service tax on the SIM cards and recharge coupons sold to the Appellant and therefore, again demanding Service tax from the Appellant would amount to double taxation, which is not permissible in law.
Essar Oil Ltd. (the Respondent) has availed Cenvat credit of Service tax paid on various services, such as ‘Rent-a-Cab’, ‘Tour Operators’, and ‘Travel Agent’ hired by them (the Impugned input services) which were used by their employees for their movement within the refinery premises or for outward travelling in connection with business.
In Reverse Charge Mechanism Service Receiver is made liable to pay service tax and comply with other provisions of Finance Act, 1994. Further the scope of Reverse Charge Mechanism was extended vide Notification no.-07/2015 and now persons other than service receiver and service providers are also made liable to comply with Finance Act, 1994 provisions.
In the case of Commissioner Of Central Excise, Delhi Vs M/S Bajaj Motors, it was held that the outdoor catering service provided has not been used for the personal use or consumption of the employee and the said service has been provided by the employer to its employees for preserving proper working atmosphere in the factory for enhancing the productivity.
In a tri-partite construction business model, there are 3 parties involved: i) The land owner; ii) The Builder/developer & iii) The contractor (who undertakes the construction). Typically, in such a model, the land owner enters into an agreement with the builder, whereby, the land owner gives either land/development rights (to construct/develop a residential complex and sell flats/houses of such complex to buyers) to the builder.
In a tri-partite construction business model, there are 3 parties involved viz. the land owner, the builder/developer and the contractor.Typically, in such a model, the land owner enters into an agreement with the builder,whereby, the land owner gives either land/development rights (to construct/develop a residential complex and sell flats/houses of such complex to buyers) to the builder.
With effect from 14.05.2015 Government means the Departments of the Central Government, a State Government and its Departments and a union territory and its departments but shall not be include any entity, whether created by a statute or otherwise, the accounts of which are not required to be kept in accordance with article 150 of the Constitution or the rules made theirunder
‘Service Tax Case Digest’, a two volume book on service tax by Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal , a city based chartered accountant and service tax practitioner, was launched on 18.01.2016 at New Delhi by Justice ‘G’ Raghuram, President of Customs Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT), New Delhi. The release function was attended by all […]
