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A service tax assessee can file return electronically by accessing ACES Web Portal www.aces.gov.in. The said website has hosted LMS (Learning Management System) on the home page. The broad features are given below:-
The existing procedure and documents required to be filed along with application for Centralized Registration has been reviewed. In order to simplify the procedure and to follow the uniform practice in all the Divisions, a new procedure has been devised. The salient features of the new procedure are given below:
It has been brought to our notice that some of the Superintendents are asking for printout of ST-2 Registration Certificate from assessee for signature and affixing stamp. The procedure has been reviewed. All the officers in this Commissionerate have been directed to take printout of ST-2 Registration Certificate from their office and send duly signed and stamped certificate by post only. However, if any assessee is interested in receiving the certificate personally, they should give the option in the printout of ST-1 application, when the same is submitted to jurisdictional Superintendent for issuance of certificate.
Representations have been received both from the field and the trade regarding difficulties being faced in the determination of the input services which are eligible for refund under notification 05/2006. Resultantly, the issue has spawned delays and disputes, which has necessitated the issue of this clarification. The issue of eligibility of input services to refund under notification no. 05/2006 has been addressed in Circular No. 120/01/2010-ST dated 19th January, 2010 in paragraph 3.1. The criterion laid down in this paragraph for determining the eligibility states that “in case the absence of such input/input service adversely impacts the quality and efficiency of the provision of service exported, it should be considered as eligible input or input service”. This criterion has not been very useful as it is found to be too conceptual and not easily translatable into objective tests that could help in deciding actual cases. Thus a need has been felt for further elaboration by the Board on this issue.
The Service Tax department proposes to order for conduct of special audit of Service Tax Assessees by the Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountants under Section 14AA of the Central Excise Act, 1944, as made applicable to Service Tax under Section 83 of the Finance Act, 1944. For this purpose, it is proposed to make a panel of CA/ICWAI who may be assigned the task of audit.
Circular No. 147/16/2011 – Service Tax , it apparent that in case the services provided by the sub-contractors to the main contractor are independently classifiable under Work Contract Service, then they too will get the benefit of exemption so long as they are in relation to the infrastructure projects mentioned above. Thus, it may happen that the main infrastructure projects of execution of works contract in respect of roads, airports, railways, transport terminals, bridges tunnels and dams, is sub-divided into several sub-projects and each such sub-project is assigned by the main contractor to the various sub-contractors. In such cases, if the sub-contractors are providing works contract service to the main contractor for completion of the main contract, then service tax is obviously not leviable on the works contract service provided by such sub-contractor.
This is to clarify that as per Service Tax Rules, 1994, an invoice should be issued within a period of 14 days from the completion of the taxable service. The invoice needs to indicate inter alia the value of service so completed. Thus, it is important to identify the service so completed.
In exercise of the powers conferred by Rule 7(4) of the Service Tax Rules 1994 read with notification No. 48/2011-Service Tax dated 19th October 2011, Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby extends the date of submission of half yearly return for the period April 2011 to September 2011 from 25th October 2011 to 26th December 2011.
Notification No. 48/2011 – Service Tax, New Delhi, the 19th October 2011 G.S.R. 771(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with sub-section (2) of section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Service Tax Rules, 1994, namely […]
As per the amended Rule 7, with effect from 1st October 2011, every service tax assessee is required to file half yearly return only electronically. A service tax assessee can file return electronically by accessing ACES Web Portal www.aces.gov.in. The said website has hosted LMS (Learning Management System) on the home page. The broad features are given below:-
