Finance : During my earlier stint when I was in UAE and Abu Dhabi in specific, I was made in charge of the Insurance department of the compa...
Finance : Hospitals and healthcare systems increasingly face financial pressures from increasing competition, deteriorating payer mix and ot...
Goods and Services Tax : Health is the primary thing and everything else follows thereafter, There is a saying that ‘Health is Wealth’, which m...
Corporate Law : CDSCO is controlled and regulated by the Directorate General of Health Services, which is part of the Government of India's minist...
Company Law : Expenditure on COVID-19 Healthcare facilities and Infrastructure counted under CSR Expenditure Pursuant to the General Circular No...
Corporate Law : IMA is astonished to see the extreme lethargy and inappropriate actions from the Ministry of health in combating the agonizing cri...
Service Tax : But health services offered by the private doctors, lab testing and diagnostic services are out of the ambit of service tax. The C...
Service Tax : CBEC has notified 8 new taxable Services w.e.f. 1.7.2010 vide Notification No.24/2010-Service Tax dated 22.6.2010. The following a...
Service Tax : The Finance Ministry has specified July 1 as the date from which service tax levy would be applicable on the eight new services br...
Service Tax : According to the Bill, tax will be levied on “a person covered by health insurance scheme, for any health check-up or treatment,...
Service Tax : • In a partnership firm, partner‘s capital can be in the form of cash/asset. It can also be in the form of contribution of ski...
Service Tax : Clarifications on new services specified in clauses (zzzzv) and (zzzzw) of section 65(105) of the Finance Act, 1994 and amendments...
The Finance Bill for 2010-11 has proposed to levy service tax on services related to the transfer of cinematographic films and sound recording under Section 65(105)(zzzzt). As we know, Intellectual Property service in terms of Section 65(55b) of the Finance Act, 1994 means (a) transferring temporarily; or (b) permitting the use or enjoyment of intellectual property right.
Brief Notes on Service Tax amendments introduced through Finance Bill, 2010 and by virtue of Notification No 2/2010-ST to 17/2010-ST all dated 27.02.10 and CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, amendment by virtue of 6/2010-CE (NT). It seems, in this budget 2010, finance minister want to wipe out country fiscal deficit in one stroke by overdosing taxation on services or on deemed service (by fiction of law).
Hon’ble Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukharjee has introduced the Finance Bill, 2010 in the Lok Sabha on the 26th of February, 2010. Clause 75 and 76 of the said bill covers the legislative changes relating to Chapter V of Finance Act, 1994 (i.e. Service Tax). While some fresh exemptions from service tax have been granted, some existing exemptions have either been withdrawn or modified. All these changes have been notified under notification nos. 2/201 0–ST to 17/201 0–ST all dated 27th February 2010.
According to the Bill, tax will be levied on “a person covered by health insurance scheme, for any health check-up or treatment, where the payment for such health check-up or treatment is made by the insurance company directly to such hospital, nursing home or multi-specialty clinic”. This will be only applicable to cashless insurance claims.
Service tax has been imposed on cosmetic surgery and plastic surgery services by the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2009 with effect from 1st September, 2009 vide Notification No 26/2009-ST dated 19.8.2009.Earlier the intention of the Government seemed to be to treat the medical profession as service in public domain and hence medical profession was kept out of the purview of service tax. This can be seen from the fact that CBEC had earlier clarified vide Circular B. No. 11/1/2002 TRU dated 01.08.2002 that cosmetic surgery or plastic surgery to improve appearance would not be liable to service tax under the category of beauty treatment services.
A recent report by Finance Commission taskforce has clarified many issues related to implementation of GST in India. Though there are many new matters which were considered in this report, but there some variations were observed as of the matters which were recommended in first discussion paper on implementation of GST in India, issued by 13th Empowered Committee of Finance Ministers on 11th November 2009.
The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has awarded a Thane widow a hefty compensation of Rs 15 lakh—one of the highest given in the state in the recent past—after penalising three doctors for medical negligence that led to her husband’s death.
