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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 2112 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 138 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 132 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 144 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 2142 Views 0 comment Print


Interim Budget but No Major Interim Relief

February 18, 2014 2360 Views 0 comment Print

Hard pressed by the compulsions of political ethics, the UPA -2 Government could not present the full fledged budget for the next fiscal 2014-15. However, an interim budget (Vote on Account) has been presented to seek approval for expenditure for next four months i.e., upto 30th June, 2014

Notification Exempting Services related to ‘Rice’ and Services provided by cord blood banks

February 17, 2014 7768 Views 0 comment Print

Addition to Mega Exemption Notification – 2A. Services provided by cord blood banks by way of preservation of stem cells or any other service in relation to such preservation. 40. Services by way of loading, unloading, packing, storage or warehousing of rice

Rice- No Service Tax on Transportation, Loading, unloading, packing, warehousing and Milling of paddy into rice

February 17, 2014 14622 Views 2 comments Print

Services Related to Transportation of rice by a rail or a vessel or by goods transport agency, services related to Loading, unloading, packing, storage and warehousing of rice and services for Milling of paddy into rice are exempt from service tax.

Interim Budget 2014 – Amendment in Service Tax

February 17, 2014 9677 Views 0 comment Print

Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, Tax Research Unit D.O.F. No. 334/03 /2014-TRU , Dated February 17, 2014. Subject: Union Budget 2014(Interim): changes in Service Tax – reg. In the Interim Union Budget, in Service Tax, two amendments have been made in notification number 25/2012-ST dated June 20, 2012: 1.1 Handling, storage […]

Rice is not an agricultural product – Service Tax on storage of rice

February 14, 2014 11512 Views 0 comment Print

I write to bring to your attention an invidious, discriminatory and completely unjust situation that has arisen as a result of an extremely insensitive and regressive interpretation of certain provisions of the Service Tax legislation, which has made the services like storage and handling associated with Rice liable to levy of Service Tax.

New Scope of Governmental Authority under Service Tax

February 14, 2014 6416 Views 0 comment Print

 Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal In Service Tax, ‘Governmental Authority’ assumes significance as certain specified services provided by it and received by it are exempt or not liable to levy of Service Tax. Though the term ‘governmental authority’ comprises of two words – ‘governmental’ (derived from government) and ‘authority’ we have a specific definition of governmental authority […]

Charging section and meaning of service (Fast track quick revision service tax part 2)

February 13, 2014 15560 Views 0 comment Print

Charging section u/s 66B. Charging section is heart of every taxation act. Section 4 in income tax act. Section 3 in Excise. Section 12 in Customs, Section 6 in CST. Section 66B in service tax. Anybody who is interested in understanding and studying taxation subject should start with charging section.

Constitution of India and Service Tax (Fast track Part 1)

February 10, 2014 4324 Views 0 comment Print

 Kaushal Agrawal The Video below explains how the Central Govt derived power from Constitution of India to enact a law to levy tax on services. It also explains 6 categories of transactions called deemed sales which are now subjected to sales tax and not service tax. This video is useful for CA, CS, CMA, B […]

Recovery before expiry of statutory period for filing appeal is breach of statutory provisions – HC

February 8, 2014 5564 Views 0 comment Print

The impugned communications dated 22 January 2014 and 23 January 2014 issued by Respondent no.3 Assistant Commissioner of Service Tax insisting that the Petitioner should pay the amounts adjudicated upon by order dated 27 December 2013 is contrary to the provisions

No service tax on sub-brokers on services provided to member of commodity exchange during Sep 04 and June 2012

February 3, 2014 1445 Views 0 comment Print

No Service Tax Required to be Paid on Services Provided by An Authorised Person or Sub-Brokers to the Member of a Commodity Exchange in Respect of Such Taxable Service on which the Service Tax was not Being Levied During the Period Commencing from The 10th Day of September 2004 and Ending with the 30th Day of June 2012 in Accordance with the Prevalent Practice – Notification No. 03/2014-Service Tax , New Delhi, 3rd February, 2014

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