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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


No Service Tax on Construction of Police Buildings: CESTAT Chennai

Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai held that construction and maintenance services for Police Academy and Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation were n...

July 19, 2026 37 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Chennai Sets Aside Service Tax on Educational Institution Construction Contracts

Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai set aside service tax demands on construction of educational institutions, Government buildings and highway medians...

July 19, 2026 40 Views 0 comment Print

Extended Limitation Can’t Be Invoked for Bona Fide Service Tax Dispute: Chhattisgarh HC

Service Tax : Chhattisgarh HC upheld CESTATs order restricting service tax demand to the normal period under Section 73(1), finding the dispute ...

July 19, 2026 87 Views 0 comment Print

No Service Tax on Meeting Fees to Whole-Time Directors: CESTAT Delhi

Service Tax : CESTAT Delhi allowed the appeal and held that meeting fees paid to whole-time directors are not liable to service tax under the Re...

July 19, 2026 48 Views 0 comment Print

Proportionate CENVAT Credit Reversal Required for Own Investment Activity: CESTAT Delhi

Service Tax : CESTAT Delhi upheld reversal of proportionate CENVAT credit on common input services used for taxable services and investment in s...

July 19, 2026 66 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 981 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


Notification No. 9/2012-Service Tax, Dated: 17.03.2012

March 17, 2012 1824 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No.9/2012 – ST, dated 17-3- 2012 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) (hereinafter referred to as the Finance Act), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No.9/2010-Service Tax, dated the 27th February, 2010, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 153 (E), dated the 27th February, 2010, namely:-

Transport of goods by rail service – Exemption to specified goods – Amends Notification No.8/2010-ST dated 27.02.2010 effective date extended to July 2012

March 17, 2012 624 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 8/2012-ST, dated 17-3-2012 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) (hereinafter referred to as the Finance Act), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No.8/2010-Service Tax, dated the 27th February, 2010, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 152 (E), dated the 27th February, 2010, namely:-

Exemption to transport of goods by Rail further extended

March 17, 2012 633 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No.7/2012-ST, dated 17-3-2012 Section 65(105)(zzzp) of the Finance Act, 1994 – Transport of goods by rail service – Exemption to transport of goods by rail – Amendment in Notification No. 7/2010-ST, dated 27-2-2010

Notification No. 6/2012-Service Tax, Dated: 17.03.2012

March 17, 2012 1602 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No.6/2012 – ST, dated 17-3-2012 Central Government hereby exempts the taxable service specified in clause (zzzo) of sub-section (105) of section 65 of the Finance Act, from so much of the service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the Finance Act, as is in excess of the service tax calculated on a value which is equivalent to forty per cent of the value of the taxable service by such service provider for providing the said taxable service

Notification No. 5/2012-Service Tax, Dated: 17.03.2012

March 17, 2012 6461 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No.5/2012 – ST, Dated 17-3-2012 aggregate value means the sum total of value of taxable services charged in the first consecutive invoices issued or required to be issued, as the case may be, during a financial year but does not include value charged in invoices issued towards such services which are exempt from whole of service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the said Finance Act under any other notification’.

Budget 2012- Point of Taxation (Amendment) Rules, 2012

March 17, 2012 13153 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No.4/2012 – ST, dated 17-3-2012 After rule 2 of the said rules, the following rule shall be inserted, namely:- 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:

Notification No. 3/2012-Service Tax, Dated: 17.03.2012

March 17, 2012 16270 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No.3/2012 – ST, dated 17-3-2012 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with sub-section (2) of section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Service Tax Rules, 1994, namely:- 1. (1) These rules may be called the Service Tax (Amendment) Rules, 2012. (2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 2012. 2. In the Service Tax Rules, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the principal rules), in rule 2, –

Notification No. 2/2012-Service Tax, Dated: 17.03.2012

March 17, 2012 6039 Views 1 comment Print

Notification No.2/2012 – ST, dated 17-3-2012 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby rescinds the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 8/2009 – Service Tax, dated the 24th February, 2009, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 120 (E), dated the 24th February, 2009, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such rescission.

Notification No. 1/2012-Service Tax, Dated: 17.03.2012

March 17, 2012 1330 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No.1/2012 – ST, dated 17-3-2012 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 42/ 2011 – Service Tax, dated the 25th July, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide G.S.R. 566 (E), dated the 25th July, 2011, namely:-

Service Tax Exempted on Copyrights on Recording of Cine Films

March 16, 2012 621 Views 0 comment Print

There is something to cheer about for the film industry in the Union Budget 2012-13. While presenting the Union Budget 2012-13 in Lok Sabha today, the Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that the year 2012 marked the beginning of the Centenary year of Indian Cinema.

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