Service Tax Articles

All about Service Tax

CA CS CIMA Prakash Somani 23 April 2009 at 13:24

Q: What is Service tax?A: Service tax is an indirect tax levied under the Finance Act, 1994, as amended from time to time, on specified services. At present, there are approximately 96 categories (including 15 new services introduced by Budget 2006)

Basic- Principles- Service Tax

Madhukar N Hiregange 20 April 2009 at 13:40

Basic Principles- Service TaxMadhukar N Hiregange FCA, DISA (ICAI)& Roopa Nayak ACAThe net of service tax was stated with 3 services in the year 1994 has become wide enough to cover 104 services today. Law being young and having wide applicabili

Import of Services

suparna k s 15 April 2009 at 10:36

IMPORT OF SERVICES The statutory provisions use the words ‘Services provided from outside India and received in India’. However, generally, the ta..

Amazing Opportunities in Service Tax Practice

Madhukar N Hiregange 03 April 2009 at 14:17

Amazing Opportunities for Professional Practice – Service Tax Madhukar N Hiregange FCA The practice in service tax is one area which would offer immense opportunities for the starter as well as multi partner firms.

Provision for Centralised Registration

S. Banerjee 07 March 2009 at 15:13

Where an assessee is providing taxable service from more than one premises or offices or has centralised Billing System or centralised Accounting System, he m..

FAQ - Service Tax

Madhukar N Hiregange 21 February 2009 at 10:24

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON SERVICE TAX By Madhukar N Hiregange (FCA, DISA) & Sri

ST- Residential Complex- Developers Not Liable

Madhukar N Hiregange 05 February 2009 at 00:11

Service Tax- Residential Complex- Developers Exempt By Madhukar N Hiregange, FCA, DISA (ICAI) & Sudhir V S B.com, ACA In the Finance Act of 2004 commercial construction was introduced followed by site formation and residential complex constructio

PERSON LIABLE TO PAY SERVICE TAX

dheeraj kr singh 01 February 2009 at 14:54

Section 68 of the Finance Act, 1994 is the principal section which fixes responsibility to payservice tax. The powers to decide time and manner of payment of service tax have beengranted to the Central Government vide Rule 6 of the Service Tax Rules,

Registration of Service Tax

Vidya 25 January 2009 at 01:02

REGISTRATION 1) Whom & where should one approach for registration? Ans. Generally, all Commissionerates of Central Excise, have a Service Tax Cell, headed by Assistant Commissioner. However, in certain Comm

PUBLIC RELATIONS SERVICES

CA Sudhir Halakhandi 23 January 2009 at 12:19

PUBLIC RELATIONS SERVICES- CA SUDHR HALAKHANDI (The article was written when service tax was introduced on Public relations services- ca sudhir halakhandi) Finance Act-2006 has introduced one more interesting and widely used service under the sc