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Goods and Services Tax : Directorate of Legal Affairs, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs is entrusted with defending all indirect taxes matters (...
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Service Tax : Require Document for Audit 1. Annexure I Questionnaire. 2. Annexure II List of addtional documents. 3. Annexure III FDSS. 4. Annex...
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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...
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During the Board Meeting held on 20thAugust, 2014 (BMB No.18/2014), CBEC had decided to build a Management Information System (MIS) for CBEC so that various critical information relating to key result areas are collected in a reliable, efficient and useful manner. The Board had accepted the proposal to build the MIS in a phased manner as per the detailed roadmap recommended by the Working Group constituted for this purpose.
Consequent to sanction of rebate / refund claims by the competent authority, cheques are being issued and the same are sent by Registered Post or handed over to the authorized person in person. The present procedure entails paper work and man power deployment by the claimants as authorized persons are required to visit the departmental offices for collection of refund cheques.
Circular No. 184/3/2015-ST Dated the 3rd June, 2015 It is further clarified that exemption from service tax still continues to services provided in relation to serving of food or beverages by a restaurant, eating joint or a mess, other than those having the facility of air-conditioning or central air-heating in any part of the establishment, at any time during the year.
The cases where refund arises due to order of Commissioner (Appeals) or Commissioner of Central Excise/ Customs and decision is taken to contest them before CEGAT. In such cases appeal/ stay application should be filed expeditiously well before the expiry of stipulated period of three months (and not waiting for the last date of filing of appeal). However, no refund/ rebate claim should be withheld on the ground that an appeal has been filed against the order giving the relief, unless stay order has been obtained.
In terms of Board’s letter of even no. dated 26.06.2012 service tax of 3.708% is levied on the total fare. As per General Budget 2015-16 announcement, the ‘Education Cess’ and ‘Secondary & Higher Education Cess’ shall be subsumed in the new service tax rate and service tax rate is proposed to be increased from 12% plus Education Cesses to 14%. Accordingly, it is proposed to modify para 3 of Board’s letter of even no. dated 26.06.2012 as under:
The Finance Bill, 2015, has received the assent of the Honorable President and has been notified. In the Budget, 2015, certain amendments in the Finance Act, 1994 have been incorporated through the Finance Act, 2015, which will come into effect from a date to be notified. In this regard, 1st June, 2015 is being notified as the date on which the provisions as specified in paragraph 2 below will come into effect. Certain provisions in some notifications already issued, will also come into effect from 1st June, 2015.
NOTIFICATION No 17/2015-ST, Dated: May 19, 2015 Exempts taxable services provided under the Power System Development Fund Scheme of the Ministry of Power
NOTIFICATION No 16/2015-ST, Dated: May 19, 2015 Amendment in the Mega Exemption Notification relating to (i) Job work (alcoholic liquors for human consumption) and (ii) Services by way of right to admission shall be effective from 1-6-2015
NOTIFICATION No 15/2015-ST, Dated: May 19, 2015 Revised rates of compounded levy of service tax under Rule 7, 7A, 7B and 7C shall be effective from 1.6.2015 Central Government hereby appoints the 1st day of June, 2015 as the date on which the provisions of sub-clauses (a), (b) and (c) and item (A) of sub-clause (d) of clause (ii) of sub-paragraph (e) of paragraph 2 of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 05/2015 – Service Tax, dated 1st March, 2015, published in the gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 159(E), dated 1st March, 2015 shall come into force.
NOTIFICATION No 14/2015-ST, Dated: May 19, 2015 In exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (a), (c) and (f) of section 107, section 108, sub-sections  (2), (3) and (4) of section 109, section 153 and section 159 of the Finance Act, 2015 (No. 20 of 2015), the Central Government hereby appoints the 1st day of June, 2015 as the date on which the provisions of clauses (a), (c) and (f) of section 107, section 108, sub-sections (2), (3) and (4) of section 109, section 153 and section 159 of the said Act shall come into force.
