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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 : Supreme Court reversed the programme producer service demand, restricted the first show cause notice to the normal limitation peri...
Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai set aside the service tax demand, holding common input service credit admissible under Rule 6(5) despite abatement ...
Service Tax : CESTAT Delhi allowed refund of reversed CENVAT credit, holding unjust enrichment was not attracted as the service tax burden was n...
Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai held that construction and maintenance services for Police Academy and Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation were n...
Service Tax : CESTAT Chennai set aside service tax demands on construction of educational institutions, Government buildings and highway medians...
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...
he Budget proposal to charge 10 per cent service tax on air travel may not be rolled back, as the government expects to raise between Rs 600 and Rs 1,000 crore annually through the measure. Maintaining that the government plans to explore new avenues to mop up resources, a top official said, “at the moment it seems highly unlikely that there will be any roll-back on the service tax issue”.
Amendments in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, No. 19/2007-Service Tax, published vide number G.S.R. 354(E), dated the 12th May, 2007
In the said notification, in the TABLE, against the entries relating to Sl.No. 17 in column (3), after the words Mumbai Service Tax, the words, Service Tax Mumbai-I, Service Tax Mumbai-II shall be inserted.
Industry body Assocham has asked the government to roll back the service tax proposed on real estate developers at the time of construction, as it would increase the tax burden on home buyers and impact the recovery of the sector. The government, in the Budget, said that real estate complexes will attract service tax, unless the entire consideration for the property is paid after the construction is complete.
With airlines lobbying hard against the proposal to bring air travel under the service tax net in Budget 2010-11, the government may provide some relief to the sector hit badly by a global slowdown. The finance ministry is likely to specify a small fixed amount as the levy on all domestic and international tickets.
The renting of immovable property for commercial/business purpose was brought under service tax net in 2007. However, as has been the case with almost all the services the drafting of the provisions was not free from confusion. As per the definition it appeared that the services provided in relation to renting of immovable property was leviable to tax. However, the Government has embraced the interpretation and provided that renting of immovable property per se is leviable to service tax.
The Geneva-based International Air Transport Association (IATA) has written to the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, calling for a relook at the Budget 2010-11 proposal to levy a service tax on domestic and international air transport.
In this Budget a retrospective amendment has been introduced in respect of the service of renting out of property for commercial purposes. Amendment has been made in the definition of “Renting of immovable property service” to provide explicitly that the activity of renting itself is a renting service. The change has given retrospective effect from June 1, 2007. This treatise seeks to explain the rationale and the background for the retrospective amendment for a proper appreciation of this action in the Budget.
CFTI cannot be considered as an institute or establishment which is specifically excluded from the definition of “commercial coaching and training centre” under section 65(27) of the Finance Act, 1994; it also cannot be considered as a “vocational training institute” for the purpose of exemption from service tax under the category of “commercial training and coaching service” in terms of Notification No. 24/2004-ST, dated 10.9.2004.
This Note sets out some of the issues (identified during at the preliminary stage of discussion on 26 and 27 February, 2010) that are likely to arise in application of the amendments proposed by Finance Bill, 2010 relating to Service Tax. 1. Section 65(19a) – Definition of “business entity”. The definition is an inclusive one and excludes an “individual”. The issue that arises is whether an individual includes “proprietary concern”?
