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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 813 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 1032 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 75699 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 2166 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 78 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 51 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 48 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 972 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 840 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. 3/99-Service Tax, Dated: 28.02.1999

February 28, 1999 544 Views 0 comment Print

In exercise of the powers conferred by 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 exempts the taxable services provided to any person by a rent-a-cab scheme operator in relation to renting of cabs, from the whole of the service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the said Act.

Notification No. 2/99-Service Tax, Dated: 28.02.1999

February 28, 1999 769 Views 0 comment Print

In exercise of the powers conferred by 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 exempts the taxable services specified in sub-section (48) of section 65 of the said Act, provided to any person in respect of which payment is made in convertible foreign exchange from the whole of the service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the said Act.

Notification No. 1/99-Service Tax, Dated: 28.02.1999

February 28, 1999 835 Views 0 comment Print

Where an assessee is providing taxable service from more than one premises or office and has a centralised accounting system in respect of such service rendered to clients from each such premises or office at any one premises or office, the Commissioner of Central Excise may permit such assessee to registering only the premises or office from where such centralised accounting is done, if he is satisfied that such registration shall not be detrimental to the interest of revenue.

Notification No. 50/98-Service Tax, Dated: 15.06.1998

June 15, 1998 604 Views 0 comment Print

In exercise of the powers conferred by 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 exempts the taxable services provided by a tour operator to the Diplomatic Missions specified in column (2) of the Schedule hereto annexed from the whole of service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the said Act.

Notification No. 49/98-Service Tax, Dated: 02.06.1998

June 2, 1998 937 Views 0 comment Print

In exercise of the powers conferred by 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 exempts the taxable services provided.

Notification No. 48/98-Service Tax, Dated: 24.04.1998

April 24, 1998 682 Views 0 comment Print

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) and in supersession of the notifications of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 13/97-Service Tax, dated the 14th February, 1997.

Notification No. 47/98-Service tax, Dated: 01.04.1998

April 1, 1998 610 Views 0 comment Print

In exercise of the powers conferred by 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 makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue No. 44/98-Service tax, dated the 22nd January, 1998, namely.

Notification No. 46/98-Service Tax, Dated: 28.01.1998

January 28, 1998 1117 Views 0 comment Print

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (b) of section 2 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) and rule 3 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 read with clause (4) of Section 65 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the Director General (Service Tax) as Central Excise Officer and invests him with all the powers to be exercised by him throughout the territory of India as are exercisable by the Chief Commissioner of Central Excise, such powers being the powers of a Central Excise Officer conferred under Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) and the Service Tax Rules, 1994 regarding any taxable service.

Notification No. 45/98-Service Tax, Dated: 22.01.1998

January 22, 1998 529 Views 0 comment Print

In exercise of the powers conferred by 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 exempts the taxable services provided by any advertising agency or courier agency to the United Nations or an international organisation from the whole of service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the said Act.

Notification No. 44/98-Service Tax, Dated: 22.01.1998

January 22, 1998 640 Views 0 comment Print

In exercise of the powers conferred by 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 exempts the taxable services provided by any advertising agency or courier agency to the Diplomatic Missions specified in column (2) of the Schedule hereto annexed from the whole of service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the said Act.

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