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CBEC exempted services provided by a senior advocate by way of legal services to- (i) any person other than a business entity; or (ii) a business entity with a turnover up to rupees ten lakh in the preceding financial year
As per Rule 3 of said Rules, a State Electricity Board or an electricity distribution or transmission licensee under the Electricity Act 2003, or any other entity entrusted with such functions by the Central Government or State Government, who is duly authorised by such State Electricity Board or an electricity distribution or transmission licensee or other entity (hereinafter referred to as State Electricity Agency).
Certain amendments made in the Union Budget 2016-17 have come into force from the date when the Finance Bill, 2016 received the assent of the President of India. As a result, these amendments have come into effect from 14.5.2016. Some of these include notification Nos. 13/2016 – ST, 14/2016 – ST and certain entries in notification Nos. 9/2016 – ST and 10/2016- ST, all dated 1.3.2016.
(7E) The person liable for paying the service tax under sub-rule (7), (7A), (7B) or (7C) of rule 6, shall have the option to pay such amount as determined by multiplying total service tax liability calculated under sub-rule (7), (7A), (7B) or (7C) of rule 6 by effective rate of Krishi Kalyan Cess and dividing the product by rate of service tax specified in section 66B of the Finance Act, 1994
the SEZ Unit or the Developer shall be entitled to refund of- (i) the service tax paid on the specified services on which ab-initio exemption is admissible but not claimed, and (ii) the amount distributed to it in terms of clause (a).
The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) by notification No. 39/2012-Service Tax, dated the 20thJune, 2012 vide number G.S.R. 481(E), dated the 20th June, 2012 and last amended vide notification No. 03/201 6- Service Tax, dated the 3rd February, 2016 vide number G.S.R. 141(E)., dated the 3rd February, 2016.
Provided that Krishi Kalyan Cess shall be leviable only on that percentage of taxable value which is specified in column (3) for the specified taxable services in column (2) of the Table in the notification No. 26/2012-Service Tax, dated 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.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 68 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) read with sub-section (5) of section 161 of the Finance Act, 2016 (28 of 2016), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby provides that notification No. 30/20 12 – 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. 472 (E), dated the 20th June, 2012 shall be applicable mutatis mutandis for the purposes of Krishi Kalyan Cess.
Accounting codes have also been allotted by the Office of the Controller General of Accounts for the new Minor Head 507-Krishi Kalyan Cess and new Sub-heads as under: Krishi Kalyan Cess (Minor Head) 0044-00-507
CBEC has clarified the Services on which no Tax is leviable if provided Government or a local authority to a business entity with a turnover up to rupees ten lakh in the preceding financial year, which are as follows :- (i) services by the Department of Posts by way of speed post, express parcel post, life insurance and agency services provided to a person other than Government ; (ii) services in relation to an aircraft or a vessel, inside or outside the precincts of a port or an airport;
