Goods and Services Tax : Directorate of Legal Affairs, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs is entrusted with defending all indirect taxes matters (...
Income Tax : Virtual digital assets (VDA) refers to any digital representation of value that can be digitally traded, transferred, or used for ...
Company Law : The formation and regulation of Producer Company is governed under the provisions of Sections 581A to 581ZL of Companies Act, 1956...
Income Tax : CBDT has vide notification No. 21/2017 released ITR forms for Assessment Year 2017-18 / Financial Year 2016-17. The number of ITR ...
Income Tax : Application for allotment of Permanent Account Number(PAN) will be filed in SPICe (INC-32) form using Digital Signature of the app...
Excise Duty : However, the whole process of DPC is getting delayed due to deficiency of ACR folders of officers. In this regard, attention is dr...
Service Tax : Finance Minister has clarified that Rice is not an agricultural produce, Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) has clarified to it...
Service Tax : Existing registrants: Those assessees, who had registered with the department after 01.07.2012 under the 'Other than in the Negati...
Service Tax : Require Document for Audit 1. Annexure I Questionnaire. 2. Annexure II List of addtional documents. 3. Annexure III FDSS. 4. Annex...
Service Tax : Upto 30.06.2012, the charging Section for the purpose of Service tax is Section 66 of the Finance Act, 1994 according to which se...
Income Tax : Office Order No. 125/2024: Immediate transfers and postings of Principal Commissioners and Commissioners in Customs and Indirect T...
Custom Duty : Read Notification No. 02/2023 from CESTAT, New Delhi, introducing virtual hearings. Learn about the procedure, technical requireme...
Service Tax : Appointment of Common Adjudicating Authority in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Shell India Markets Pvt. Ltd. vide Order No. 08/202...
Service Tax : Appointment of Common Adjudicating Authority (CAA) in respect of SCNs issued to M/s A.K. Construction Co. vide Order No. 07 /2023-...
Service Tax : Appointment of Common Adjudicating Authority (CAA) in respect of SCNs issued to M/s Hi-tech Equipment Services vide Order No. 06/2...
F. No. 390/Misc./69/2015-JC Chief Commissioners are already empowered under the provisions of Section 35Q (as made applicable to service tax matters also under Section 83 of Finance Act,1994) and Section 146A of Customs Act,1962 read with clause (ii) of rule 2(c) of the CESTAT (Procedures) Rules, 1982 to authorize a jurisdictional officer to appear before the CESTAT Bench for pleading a case on behalf of the department . The Board has decided that where no officer is available to argue cases, based on merits of the case, the Chief Commissioner may, in such cases authorize any other officer of his zone to appear before the Tribunal.
Office Order No. 07/Ad.IV/ 2015 In continuation of Board’s Office Order No.02/Ad.IV/2015 dated 27.08.2015 (F.No.A-11013/20/2015-Ad.IV) regarding creation of Directorate General of Tax Payers Services in CBEC, the post of Chief Commissioner Tax Payers Services will stand re-designated as Director General Tax Payers Services (DGTPS).
For all Service Tax assessees in the State of Tamil Nadu, the date for payment of Service Tax for November 2015 is extended to 20th December 2015 vide Notification No. 26/2015-Service Tax dated 09th December 2015.
F.No. 275/65/2013-CX.8A I am directed to say that as per para 4.8 of the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on ‘Litigation in Appellate Forums’ issued in October, 2013, all the cases pertaining to indirect taxes before the High Court, wherein Uol, MoF, Secretary (Revenue), Chairperson CBEC or any of these figure as respondents, are defended by the Commissioner concerned on being duly authorised by the Legal Cell of CBEC.
The Standard Operating Procedures for handling litigation in the Supreme Court, High Court and CESTAT has been a long felt need. This Manual of SOP is one of the flagship documents published from the Directorate of Legal Affairs, to streamline handling of litigation in the Department.
Circular No.189/8/2015-Service Tax It has come to the notice of the Board that certain field formations have taken a view that all activities incidental to seed testing are leviable to service tax and only the activity in so far it relates to actual testing has been exempted in the Negative List.
Circular No. 188/7/2015-ST Accounting codes have also been allotted by the Office of the Controller General of Accounts for the new Minor Head 506-Swachh Bharat Cess and new Sub-heads as under:
Notification No. 25/2015-Service Tax (7D) 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 0.5 and dividing the product by 14 (fourteen), during any calendar month or quarter, as the case may be, towards the discharge of his liability for Swachh Bharat Cess
Notification No. 24/2015-Service Tax – notification No. 30/2012 – 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 for the purposes of Swachh Bharat Cess mutatis mutandis.
Notification No. 23/2015-Service Tax It is hereby clarified that value of taxable services for the purposes of the Swachh Bharat Cess shall be the value as determined in accordance with the Service Tax (Determination of Value) Rules, 2006.