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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 816 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 75702 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 2169 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 117 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 54 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 60 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 975 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 843 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


No Service tax chargeable if services not rendered in India

December 30, 2012 7117 Views 0 comment Print

Respondents are not liable to pay any service tax under reverse charge mechanism on the services availed by them from their parent company as they have not paid any remuneration for the training charges. If at all any charges were paid for training outside India is not chargeable to service tax as per provisions of Taxation of Services (Provided from outside India and received in India) Rules, 2006.

Service tax Penalty to be waived off when there exists no mala-fide intentions of assessee for non-payment of ST

December 30, 2012 4349 Views 0 comment Print

It is not disputed by the adjudicating authority that the appellants were in correspondence with the Ministry of Finance seeking exemption on the maintenance and repair services of aircrafts pertaining to Ministry of Defence. Such correspondence resulted in denial of said request for exemption by Ministry of Finance on 26.7.2005.

Documents Required for service Tax Audit

December 30, 2012 19559 Views 0 comment Print

Require Document for Audit 1. Annexure I Questionnaire. 2. Annexure II List of addtional documents. 3. Annexure III FDSS. 4. Annexure IV Reconciliation. 5. Annexure V Cenvat Account Rule 9

Direct credit of Refund/ Rebate to the Exporters’ credit by way of Electronic payment under RTGS/ NEFT facility

December 30, 2012 1600 Views 0 comment Print

It has been brought to our notice that the present practice of issuing account payee cheques to the refund claimants is cumbersome and it also entails lot of paperwork, including return of cheques due to incomplete address and other clerical errors, leading to considerable delay in realisation of the refund! rebate amounts by the claimants.

Billing System & Accounting Treatment in Case of Reverse Charge of Service Tax

December 28, 2012 8199 Views 0 comment Print

CA Nitin Gupta IN CASE OF SERVICE RECEIVER IN CASE OF REVERSE CHARGE • WHERE PAYMENT IS MADE TO THE SERVICE PROVIDER, WITHIN 6 MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF INVOICE   POT = PAYMENT BASIS •WHERE PAYMENT IS NOT MADE TO THE S.P., WITHIN 6 MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF INVOICE   POINT OF TAXATION […]

Govt exempts Janashree & Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana from service tax

December 24, 2012 3195 Views 0 comment Print

Government exempts the following two Schemes under services of life insurance business from Service tax by adding the same in mega Exemption Notification No. 25/2012-Service Tax :- (a) Janashree Bima Yojana (JBY); or (b) Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana (AABY)

Download PPT on Point of Taxation Rules

December 24, 2012 7137 Views 0 comment Print

Point of Taxation Rules -Is it determining the taxable event for levy of Service Tax (i.e. service deemed to be provided). RULE 2A – Date of payment.— For the purposes of these rules, date of payment shall be the earlier of the dates on which the payment is entered in the books of accounts or is credited to the bank account of the person liable to pay tax:

Liaison work is not Management Consultancy Service

December 23, 2012 11814 Views 0 comment Print

Liaison work is not in the nature of any consultancy or advice. But only one of the temporary functions that was required for the functioning of the company. If a person does the activity of collecting of debts of a company that person cannot be considered to be doing management consultancy service though debt collection is a responsibility of the management. Based on such reasoning liaison work cannot be considered as “Management or Business Consultancy” and cannot be taxed under section 65(105)(r) of Finance Act 1994.

No GTA services if custodial rights not transferred to transporter

December 23, 2012 3267 Views 0 comment Print

No GTA services if custodial rights not transferred to transporter : The terms of the contract showed that this was a case where the operator was responsible only for the vehicle and there were no custodial rights or responsibilities in matter of goods carried. Since the assessee was responsible for the goods transported, consignment note, which is a document of title to the goods, was not issued.

All about Point of Taxation in Service Tax

December 22, 2012 31015 Views 1 comment Print

 CA Sanjeev Singhal The Point of Taxation The rules were made applicable from 1.7.2011. The introduction of these rules has shifted the liability to pay tax from cash basis to accrual basis . Input credit can be availed on the basis of invoice when such invoice has been received. Basic Concept A] Associated Enterprises : […]

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