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Rent a cab service - Revenue Raising or Litigation Raising

  Harsh Gadodia    09 January 2015 at 11:05

A recent amendments made in the Union Budget 2014 in regard to rent a cab service - service tax liability, cenvat credits and reverse charge, not only ignite the confusions that was prevailing already in the industry



Refund of ST to exporter of services

  CA Sunnay Jariwala    05 January 2015 at 10:54

Notification No. 39/2012- Service Tax20th June, 2012 The Central Government hereby directs that there shall be granted rebate of the whole of the duty paid on excisable inputs or the whole of the service tax and cess paid on all input services (herei



Analysis of L&T - Service Tax - Impact on Valuation of WCT in residential apartments

  Madhukar N Hiregange    03 January 2015 at 10:59

Construction Service / Works Contract- Residential ApartmentsImpact of Larsen & Toubro [ K.Raheja] Judgment.Madhukar N Hiregange Commercial tax is a largest[maximum] contributor of revenue to every State. There were attempts in late 1990s and la



Service Tax on Voluntary Organizations (NGO)

  Guest    02 January 2015 at 11:26

After introduction of Negative List based taxation under service tax from 1.7.2012, the applicability of service tax to voluntary / non-profit organizations (NGOs) has become a contentious issue. This is because of introduction of all encompassing de



Threshold exemption to small service providers under service tax as updated 26th Dec'14

  CA. K S Chauhan    02 January 2015 at 11:26

1. Summary of previous notifications related to threshold exemption along with limit, date of applicability and relevant Notification numbers: Period Exemption limit (Rs.) Relevant Notification of Service Tax Effectiv



Rebate on Export of Goods (Notification 41/2014)

  CA Sunnay Jariwala    02 January 2015 at 11:26

Notification No. 41/2012-Service Tax29th June, 2012 This notification shall come into effect on the 1st day of July, 2012. It deals with the export of goods. The Central Government grants rebate of service tax paid (hereinafter referred to as rebate)



Penalty leviable even if service tax is paid before SCN

  Sumit Grover    29 December 2014 at 17:57

Recently, Hon'ble Karnataka High Court in the matter of K. Madhav Kamath Brother & Co. v. Asst. Comm. of Central Excise, pronounced that even if service tax is paid prior to Show Cause Notice, still the penalty shall be leviable u/s 76/78, 77



Third report of TARC

  Bimal Jain    24 December 2014 at 12:28

THIRD REPORT OF TAXADMINISTRATION REFORMCOMMISSION (TARC) The Government had constituted Tax Administration Reform Commission (the TARC) headed by Dr. Parthasarathi Shome, on August, 2013, to suggest core reforms to the tax administrati



Service Tax on Commission Agent dealing in Import-Export

  Swapnil Munot    19 December 2014 at 10:44

Service Tax on Commission Agent Service on Import-Export of Goods By CA Swapnil Munot In order to promote the Exports, Government of India has given big relief to industries in India, by exempting the service tax on



Reverse charge & partial reverse charge mechanism in ST

  CA. K S Chauhan    19 December 2014 at 10:40

Service Tax is levied under Section 66B of the Finance Act, 1994 as amended up to date. Section 68(1) confers liability to pay service tax on service provider but section 68(2), which has overriding effect over section 68(1), confers liability to pay