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Central Government (CG) has issued various Notifications under the Service tax and the Central Excise for extending the benefit of refund/rebate to the Swachh Bharat Cess (SB Cess) component and the input services used beyond factory for export. Further, the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 (the Credit Rules) has been amended to allow Cenvat credit on commission agent’s services and to make explicit that Cenvat credit shall not be used for payment of SB Cess.
Notification No. 03/2016-Service Tax – Seeks to amend notification No. 39/2012- ST, dated the 20th June, 2012 so as to provide for rebate of Swachh Bharat Cess paid on all services, used in providing services exported in terms of rule 6A of the Service Tax Rules.
Notification No. 02/2016-Service Tax (ba) the SEZ Unit or the Developer shall be entitled to- i. refund of the Swachh Bharat Cess paid on the specified services on which ab-initio exemption is admissible but not claimed; and ii. the refund of amount as determined by multiplying total service tax distributed to it in terms of clause (a) by effective rate of Swachh Bharat Cess and dividing the product by rate of service tax specified in section 66B of the Finance Act, 1994.
Notification No. 01/2016-Service Tax Seeks to amend notification No. 41/2012- ST, dated the 29th June, 2012 so as to allow refund of service tax on services used beyond the factory or any other place or premises of production or manufacture of the said goods for the export of the said goods and to increase the refund amount commensurate to the increased service tax rate.
Notification No. 02/2016-Central Excise (N.T.) Seeks to amend CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, so as to i. specify that the Cenvat credit of any duty specified in sub-rule (1) shall not be utilized for payment of the Swachh Bharat Cess. ii. allow credit of service tax paid on sale of dutiable goods on commission basis.
What is Swachh Bharat Cess ? It is a Cess which shall be levied and collected in accordance with the provisions of Chapter VI of the Finance Act, 2015,called Swachh Bharat Cess, as service tax on all the taxable services at the rate of 0.5% of the value of taxable service.
Whether Cenvat Credit of the SBC is available? SBC is not integrated in the Cenvat Credit Chain. Therefore, credit of SBC cannot be availed. Further, SBC cannot be paid by utilizing credit of any other duty or tax.
According to Chapter VI of Finance Act 2015 it contains provisions for levy and collection of Swachh Bharat Cess. Government has notified levy of Swachh Bharat Cess at the rate of 0.5% of the value of taxable services. Swachh Bharat Cess is not leviable on services which are fully exempt from service tax or those covered under the negative list of services. Presently new service tax rate is 14% and rate of SBC is 0.5%. New rate of service tax plus SBC would be 14.5% on all value of taxable services.
In today’s scenario, all are discussing about Swachh Bharat Mission which was launched by Prime minister, Narendra Modi with the aim to improve the sanitation in rural and urbn areas so that the overll quality of life improves. Since its launch govt. has made substantial expenditure on the programme. With the objective to finance and Promote Swachh Bharat initiatives, the central Government has decided to impose an additional cess called the SWACHH BHARAT CESS (SBC).
This new levy of ‘Swachh Bharat Cess’ (SBC) has been revealed by the government by way of issuance of various service tax notifications, circular and FAQs and this new levy is to have effect from 15.11.2015. This article is an attempt to analyse the statutory provisions of this new levy, ‘SBC’.
