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With effect from 1 July, 2012, there are certain services on which 100% service tax needs to be paid by Service Recipient and there is partial reverse charge wherein both service provider and service recipient needs to pay service tax as per defined percentage as mentioned in the table below:-
TRU has issued a Circular No. 164/15/2012-ST dated August 28, 2012 clarifying certain issues in relation to levy of service tax on certain vocational education/training/ skill development courses (VEC) offered by the Government (Central Government or State Government) or local authority themselves or by an entity independently established by the Government under the law, as a society or any other similar body.
The CBEC has issued Notification No. 45/2012-ST dated 7-8-2012, amending the Notification No. 30/2012-ST dated 20-6-2012 and expanded the scope of reverse charge mechanism. With effect from 7-8-2012, services provided by the director to the company will be covered under the reverse charge mechanism.
Service by Directors to the Company: As per this amendment, the services provided by a Director to the Company, the entire service tax has to be paid by the Company under Reverse charge but what happen for a period from 1st July 2012 and till 6th August 2012, when there was no reverse charge mechanism for the service by Director to the Company was taxable.
TRU has issued a Draft Circular F. No 354/127/2012-TRU dated July 27, 2012 clarifying certain issues in relation to leviability of service tax on staff benefits and employee related transactions and trade, industry & field formations are requested to go through the draft Circular and offer their comments, views and suggestions.
The appellants were sending their manager/ employees to hotels run by the subsidiary/ associate companies on deputation. They were recovering costs on actual basis and were not retaining any amount out of the payment made by the hotels run by the subsidiary/ associate companies. The contention of the Department is that the appellants were engaged in manpower supply service as they were supplying their manpower to hotels run by associate companies on a cost recovery basis.
The appellant was a franchisee of BCCI-IPL and received payment from BCCI-IPL as its share in receipts towards media rights and other income collected centrally by BCCI-IPL. The key issue in the appeal was whether the amount received by the appellant from BCCI-IPL liable to service tax as business support services provided to BCCI-IPL.
No service tax will be leviable on the amount of foreign currency remitted to India from abroad: Service has been defined under Section 65B (44) of the Finance Act, 1994. The definition specifically excludes a transaction in money or actionable claim. As the remittance of foreign currency from abroad is a transaction in money, therefore, it will fall outside the ambit of service. Accordingly, no service tax will be leviable on it.
Query:- What is the option open to the Assessee following Works Contract (Composition Scheme for Payment of Service Tax) Rules, 2007 which is rescinded vide Notification No. 35/2012-ST dated 20-6-2012, w.e.f 1-7-2012. Answer:- Change in the manner of payment of tax from composition scheme under erstwhile the Works Contract (Composition Scheme for Payment of Service Tax) Rules, 2007 will change either to make payment of service tax on actual value under clause (i) of Rule 2A of the Service Tax (Determination of Value) Rules, 2006 or under clause (ii) of Rule 2A – Composite rate:-
Yesterday, the TRU has issued number of Notifications to give effect of implementation of Paradigm shift in taxation of Services –Budget 2012 by way of either rescinding or amending old Notifications including some of recently issued Notifications during the time of Budget 2012 i.e. 17th March, 2012, which were supposed to come into force from the date on which the new Section 66B (the new charging Section) i.e. 1st July 2012.
