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Service Tax - Can Higher Education Courses be equated to ‘training and coaching’ in tax parlance? Taxing education sector has always been a tricky issue. For the first time in 2003, under Service Tax regime, service tax was imposed on ‘commercial training and coaching’ service. The term which was used in charging provision of ta...
Read MoreService Tax - From July 2012, Service Tax shall be levied on all services other than those enumerated in the negative list U/s. 66D of Finance Act 1994 or those provided in the Mega Exemption Notification No. 25/2012. Thus after an act fulfills the conditions of the definition of the term service, it shall be verified if the service falls under the Neg...
Read MoreService Tax - Services provided by an educational institution (as defined) to its students, faculty and staff are exempt under clause (a) of Notification Number ST-25/2012 dated 20/06/2012....
Read MoreService Tax - According to present clause 9(b) of exemption Notification No. 25/2012-ST dated 20-06-2012, exemption is provided from the levy of Service Tax in relation to services provided to an educational institution, by way of:...
Read MoreService Tax - Notification No. 10/2017-Service Tax has been issued by Government so as to withdraw exemptions granted earlier to few specific Services provided to an Education Institutions....
Read MoreService Tax - Central Government has clarified that there is NO proposal in the Union Budget 2017-18 to levy 5% Service Tax on Healthcare Services, as reported in certain Social Media circles....
Read MoreService Tax - Availment of Exemptions Under section 93 of Finance Act, 1994, the Government is empowered to exempt generally or subject to such conditions as may be specified in the notification, taxable service of any specified description from the whole or any part of the service tax leviable thereon. During the course of this performance audit we [&...
Read MoreService Tax - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has sought an extension for the waiver on service tax on railway freight. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had earlier given a tax holiday to the Railways till December 31. Banerjee now wants the tax relief extended ...
Read MoreService Tax - The Labour and Employment Ministry has requested the Finance Ministry to keep Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) and Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) schemes out of the ambit of service tax as they are social security schemes. “If the provisions of ser...
Read MoreService Tax - Post the finance ministry's move to include eight new services such as domestic air travel and health under the ambit of service tax from 1 July, the revenue department has clarified that payments made before that date for services yet to be delivered would be exempted from the tax....
Read MoreD.0. F. No. IV(20/3/2015-Systems Pt.1 - (29/03/2019) - There is a considerable gap between the turnover on account of services as per the ITR/TDS data and the value of services declared in the corresponding Service Tax returns (above threshold of Rs. 1o lakhs). For FY 2015-16 alone, the mismatch is to the tune of of approx. Rs. 12 Lakh Crores. ...
Read MoreNotification No. 25/2016-Service Tax - (17/05/2016) - Service Tax on Services provided by the specified organisations in respect of a religious pilgrimage facilitated by the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India, under bilateral arrangement not required to be paid for the period commencing on and from the 1st day of July, 2012 and en...
Read MoreCircular No. 133 /2/2011 – ST - (18/01/2011) - Circular No. 133 /2/2011 – ST A clarification has been sought as to the scope and meaning of the description namely ‘Janata Personal Accident Policy (JPAP)’ appearing in the Notification No. 3/1994-ST dated 30.06.1994....
Read MoreNotification No. 42/2009-Service Tax - (12/11/2009) - Notification No. 42/2009-Service Tax Govt. exempts the taxable service specified in sub-clause (zzb) of clause (105) of section 65 of the Finance Act, provided by a person (hereinafter called the 'service provider'), to any other person (hereinafter called the 'service receiver'), in relation to on...
Read MoreNotification No.1/2009 – Service Tax - (05/01/2009) - Notification No.1/2009 – Service Tax Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the taxable services specified in sub-clauses (j), (k), (zr), (zza), (zzb), (zzzf), (zzzq) and (zzzzj) of clause (105) of section 65 of the Finance Act,...
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