Seeks to amend Notification No. 26/2012- Service Tax dated 20.06.2012, by inserting of entry “5A” for transportation of passengers embarking from or terminating in a Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) airports, with abatement of 90%,for a period of one year from the date of commencement of operations of the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) airport, with condition of without taking any CENVAT credit.
The Central Government vide Notification No. 38/2016-Service Tax, Dated: August 30, 2016 has amended Abatement Notification No. 26/2012-Service tax dated June 20, 2012 by inserting a new entry 5A to grant service tax abatement of 90% on the value of service of transport of passengers, with or without accompanied belongings, by air, embarking from or terminating in a RCS Airport subject to the condition that CENVAT credit on inputs, capital goods and input services, used for providing the taxable service has not been taken by the service provider under the provisions of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004.
The abatement will be valid for a period of 1 year from the date of commencement of operations of the RCS Airport as notified by the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)
NOTIFICATION No. 38/2016-Service Tax
New Delhi, the 30th August, 2016
G.S.R. 835(E).-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 makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 26/2012- Service Tax, dated the 20th June, 2012, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 468 (E), dated the 20th June, 2012, namely:-
1. In the said notification,-
(a) in the TABLE, after Sl. No. 5 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and entries shall be inserted, namely :-
| “5A | Transport of passengers, with or without accompanied belongings, by air, embarking from or terminating in a Regional Connectivity Scheme Airport. | 10 | CENVAT credit on inputs, capital goods and input services, used for providing the taxable service, has not been taken by the service provider under the provisions of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004.” |
(b) after paragraph 2, the following paragraph shall be inserted, namely :-
“2A. Nothing contained at Sl. No. 5A of the TABLE shall apply on or after the expiry of a period of one year from the date of commencement of operations of the Regional Connectivity Scheme Airport as notified by the Ministry of Civil Aviation.”.
[F. No. 354/226/2013 – TRU (Pt.)]
(Anurag Sehgal)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Note:-The principal notification No. 26/2012 – Service Tax, dated 20th June, 2012, was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-Section (i) vide number G.S.R. 468 (E), dated the 20th June, 2012 and was last amended by notification No. 8/2016- Service Tax, dated the 1st March, 2016, vide G.S.R. 256(E), dated the 1st March, 2016.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)
CORRIGENDUM
New Delhi, the 10th November, 2016
G.S.R. (E). – In the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 38/2016-Service Tax, dated the 30th August, 2016 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 835 (E), dated the 30th August, 2016, at page 2,-
(i) in line 23, for “5” read “6”;
(ii) in the TABLE, in column 1, for “5A” read “6A”;
(iii) in line 31, for “5A of the TABLE” read “6A of the TABLE”.
[F. No. 354/226/2013 –TRU (PL-1)]
(Anurag Sehgal)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
