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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 Delhi held that transportation and distribution of newspapers by road constituted services covered under Section 66D(p) of ...
Service Tax : CESTAT Delhi sustained the service tax demand after finding that the royalty amounts were based on receipts acknowledged by the ap...
Service Tax : CESTAT Delhi held that overseas liaison offices functioning merely as communication channels cannot be treated as separate service...
Service Tax : The ruling clarifies that consignment notes carry legal significance under the Finance Act and Service Tax Rules for determining G...
Service Tax : The Tribunal observed that payment of licence fees for exclusive use of demarcated spaces amounted to renting of immovable propert...
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...
Notification No.17/2009 – Service Tax 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 said Act) and in supersession of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) notification No.41/2007-Service Tax, dated the 6th October, 2007,
Services Provided by any of following club or association to its members, in relation to provision of services, facilities or advantages for a subscription or any other amount is exempt by Notification No. 16/2009-Service Tax, New Delhi, the 7th July, 2009 till 31.03.2010. We are producing below the text of the same for your reference.
1) Medical Services- Services of cosmetic surgery or plastic surgery (zzzzk). However surgery undertaken to restore or reconstruct anatomy or functions of body affected due to congenital defects, developmental abnormalities, degenerative diseases, injury or trauma shall be exempt. 2) Transport other than surface transport-The following Transport services in relation to transport under sub clause (zzzzl) have been made taxable
4 new services has been brought in the tax net -a) Transport of goods through Water :- to any person, by any other person, in relation to transport of (i) coastal goods; (ii) goods through national waterway; or (iii) goods through inland water.
In India the contribution of service sector to the GDP is about 55% and is a major driver of economic growth. However it was very difficult to define export of services and therefore many multinationals were wary of exploring opportunities for cross-border trade with India. Unlike goods which are defined to be exports when they physically cross the Indian territory it was very complex to define the export of services given that they were mostly intangible assets with no direction of movement or unique or definable place of their consumption or use. This left the question of defining the export of services.
Circular No. 113/7/2009-ST The Working Group on Central Excise and Service Tax re-engineering, constituted by the Board has prepared a Return Scrutiny Manual for Service Tax (RSMST). The said manual has been approved by the Board and a copy of the same is enclosed herewith (not printed).
The making and sale of advertising materials for customers in the form of banner or hoarding or film-slide, etc. is `advertisement’ as defined under section 65(2); all commercial concerns engaged in any of the activities connected with advertisement, which includes making, preparing, displaying or exhibition of advertisement, answer the description of `advertising agency’.
The transfer of brand name does not have any meaning for the buyer until and unless the know-how for the manufacture of the formulations sold under that particular brand name, is also transferred.
News Broadcasters Association has demanded exemptions in service tax, fringe benefit tax and hike in government advertisement rates as part of its pre-budget proposals. The proposals have been submitted before the finance ministry.
The activity of marketing agents was brought under the tax net with effect from 1-7-03 when BAS was introduced; same services could not be classifiable under C&F Agent Service for any previous period as the scope of C&F Agent service was not modified when BAS was introduced in the Finance Act, 1994.
