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Place of provision of services provided by way of admission to, or organization of, a cultural, artistic, sporting, scientific, educational, entertainment event, or a celebration, conference, fair, exhibition, or any other similar event, and of services ancillary to such admission, shall be the place where the event is held.
Rule 5- Location of Immovable Property In the case of a service that is ‘directly in relation to immovable property’, the place of provision is where the immovable property (land or building) is located, irrespective of where the provider or receiver is located.
Services that are related to goods, and which require such goods to be made available to the service provider so that the service can be rendered, are covered here. Examples of such services are repair, reconditioning, or any other work on goods (not amounting to manufacture), storage and warehousing, courier service, cargo handling service (loading, unloading, packing or unpacking of cargo), technical testing/inspection/certification/ analysis of goods, dry cleaning etc. It will not cover services where the supply of goods by the receiver is not material to the rendering of the service e.g. where a consultancy report commissioned by a person is given on a pen drive belonging to the customer. Similarly, provision of a market research service to a manufacturing firm for a consumer product (say, a new detergent) will not fall in this category, even if the market research firm is given say, 1000 nos. of 1 kilogram packets of the product by the manufacturer, to carry for door-to-door surveys.
The main rule or the default rule provides that a service shall be deemed to be provided where the receiver is located. The main rule is applied when none of the other later rules apply (by virtue of rule 14 governing the order of application of rules- see para 3.12 of this guidance paper). In other words, if a service is not covered by an exception under one of the later rules, and is consequently covered under this default rule, then the receiver’s location will determine whether the service is leviable to tax in the taxable territory.
Common registration formalities with Central excise and draft amendments to Service Tax Rules 1994 In the Service Tax Rules, 1994, in rule 4, the sub-rules (1) to (8) shall be omitted and in the rule 4 the following sub-rules shall be inserted namely:- (1) Every Assessee shall make an application electronically through the Automation of […]
There were expectations that the 7th budget of Pranab Mukherjee might contain progressive development oriented proposals, so that despite political provocations and vagaries, the optimism of progress and growth could have held centre stage. But it has belied that promise, though some eminent Economists called it, a budget by the Book.
At last the budget day arrived and we have heard the budget speech of Finance Minister. Some of us could also read few relevant papers of budget document. On macro view, the budget seems to be an non event so far as providing impetus and further fuel to the economy is concerned, there being no major policy steps in taking a leap into the next decade. This opportunity could have been used, more so 2012 being first year of the new five year plan.
Proposal to introduce negative list approach to taxation of services will enhance the share of service tax in the total tax revenue manifolds. The services specified in the negative list shall remain outside the service tax purview. This approach brings almost all the services under the tax net barring 17 heads of service listed in the negative list. Negative list includes most of the services provided by Government for local authority, services provided by Reserve Bank of India, foreign diplomatic missions located in India, cultivation services, trading of goods, betting, gambling, approved vocational educational education, etc.
As per the budget proposal, metered taxis, entry to amusement facilities, second-class rail travel, and betting, gambling and lottery will not attract the 12 per cent Service Tax. The negative list of services, on which the increased Service Tax of 12 per cent will not be levied, include admission to entertainment events, access to amusement facilities and travel by radio taxis and auto rickshaws. Other important services which will not attract the tax include funeral, burial, mutate services and transport of deceased.
U/s 250(4), the CIT (A) has the power to direct enquiry and call for evidence from the assessee. Under Rule 46A, the assessee has the right to ask for the admission of additional evidence. If the CIT (A) exercises his powers u/s 250(4) to call for additional evidence, the AO need not be given an opportunity to show-cause. However, if the CIT (A) acts on an application under Rule 46A, then the requirement of giving the AO an opportunity as per Rule 46A(3) is mandatory. The argument that in all cases where additional evidence is admitted, the CIT (A) should be considered to have exercised his powers u/s 250(4) is not acceptable as it will render Rule 46A redundant.
