Applicability of service tax

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Querist : Anonymous

Querist : Anonymous (Querist)

16 November 2011 Dear Sir/Madam,

We are manufacturing unit and having excise registration and we have taken service tax registration on May 2011 for Work contract tax services, Design services, Errection & commission, I want to charged (billed )to our customer for providing harmonic service i.e. study of particular project, as per the contract.

Pls tell me whether we should charged Service Tax to our Customer or not, as we have taken service tax reg. im May 2011 and This is our first invoice of services as well as we have not cross the service tax threshold limit.

Pls suggest me at the earliest.

Rajnish Singh

Rajnish Singh (Expert)
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16 November 2011 Dear Sir,

When you have taken the service tax No , You must have charged service tax while you dont cross the limit of service tax.

If you dont get the no than no need to charge .

while it is clear in the service tax rule that when a turnover is more than 9 lakh than dealer has to applied for service tax no and thresshold limit is rs. 10 lakh.