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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...
SC dismissed the Revenue’s delayed appeal, letting stand the ruling that only the recognised PGP course qualifies for service tax exemption. Other executive and specialised programmes remained taxable.
The Tribunal held that only the recognised PGP course qualified for exemption. Other management programmes were taxable as they were not shown to be recognised by law.
The case examined whether assignment of programme copyright was a service or a sale. The Tribunal held that permanent transfer of copyright is a sale liable to VAT, not service tax.
The Tribunal ruled that penalty under Section 78 was not sustainable where Service Tax under RCM was paid prior to the show cause notice. The absence of deliberate intent and existence of reasonable cause justified waiver of penalty.
The Tribunal ruled that Service Tax cannot be levied merely on reimbursement figures taken from accounts without evidence of a taxable service. Reimbursement of Convention expenses was held outside the tax net.
The Tribunal held that transport services cannot be taxed as GTA without proof of consignment notes. It ruled that, in the absence of statutory documents, the freight-related Service Tax demand was unsustainable.
CESTAT held that local transportation of goods, even with incidental loading, cannot be taxed as cargo handling when contracts are divisible. The service tax demand and penalty were therefore set aside.
CESTAT Mumbai held that service tax demand order set aside since show cause notice [SCN] and adjudication order not duly served upon the appellant. Accordingly, appeal is allowed.
CESTAT Kolkata held that no demand of service tax can be made simply based on the difference between the Balance Sheet and the ST-3 returns without providing any explanation about the nature of service on which service tax is payable. Thus, order is set aside to that extent.
The Court held that booking speakers for an event does not amount to event management. Participation or facilitation alone cannot attract service tax under the event management category.
