Notification No.5/2012 – ST, Dated 17-3-2012 aggregate value means the sum total of value of taxable services charged in the first consecutive invoices issued or required to be issued, as the case may be, during a financial year but does not include value charged in invoices issued towards such services which are exempt from whole of service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the said Finance Act under any other notification’.
Notification No.4/2012 – ST, dated 17-3-2012 After rule 2 of the said rules, the following rule shall be inserted, namely:- 2A. Date of payment.- For the purposes of these rules, date of payment shall be the earlier of the dates on which the payment is entered in the books of accounts or is credited to the bank account of the person liable to pay tax:
Notification No.3/2012 – ST, dated 17-3-2012 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:- 1. (1) These rules may be called the Service Tax (Amendment) Rules, 2012. (2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 2012. 2. In the Service Tax Rules, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the principal rules), in rule 2, –
Notification No.2/2012 – ST, dated 17-3-2012 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby rescinds the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 8/2009 – Service Tax, dated the 24th February, 2009, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 120 (E), dated the 24th February, 2009, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such rescission.
Notification No.1/2012 – ST, dated 17-3-2012 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 42/ 2011 – Service Tax, dated the 25th July, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide G.S.R. 566 (E), dated the 25th July, 2011, namely:-
Central Excise In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 2/2011-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 117 (E), dated the 1st March, 2011, namely:-
Central excise Effective Rate of 12% and 6% fixed for many items for which the Tariff Rates have also been reduced. But as the reduction in tariff does not have immediate effect, the reduction is brought into immediate effect by this notification, which will be rescinded when the Finance bill is enacted.
Following Exemption Notifications rescinded. No.2/2008 -Central Excise, dated the 1 st March, 2008; No.59/2008 -Central Excise, dated the 7 th December, 2008; No.18/2009-Central Excise, dated the 7 th July, 2009;
Parts, components and accessories namely, battery chargers, PC connectivity cables, memory cards and hands-free headphones of mobile handsets.Explanation. – For the purposes of this entry, mobile handsets include cellular phones.
Provided that for the purposes of availing of exemption under this notification for the financial year 2012-13, the aggregate value of clearances of articles of jewellery (other than silver jewellery) falling under Chapter heading 7113 of the First Schedule, for home consumption by a manufacturer from one or more factories, or from a factory by one or more manufacturers, for the financial year 2011-12 shall be calculated on the basis of tariff value fixed in accordance with notification no. 09/2012-Central Excise (NT), dated the 17th March, 2012.
