Dear Friends,

Need clarification on the following queries

1) A firm bein service receiver of goods transport via road service need to register and pay ST. Being unaware of such provision never made arrangements for such ST payment. subsequently aft registration how to compute of such and remit? can batement of 75% be had? will the whole ST be expense to firm as same cant be recovered from the GTA provider or on his ST portion.

2) need clarification like havent made arrangement for ST and now have to file ST means how to adjust the same? should the firm bare it as expense?

3) Had the GTA was regular ST payer and filed their returns and now the firm subsequent to its regist also pays wont it be double payment of ST for same service?

4) wat is current Interest rate for delay in ST remitance. plz give section or notification No. for the same

Pl. clarify, whether Insurance agents (LIC/GIC)are covered under service tax, if yes then under what conditions

Is the decesion of Delhi High Court applicable in Gujarat for renting of Immovable property? If not applicable then can we pay Service tax under protest?

Dear Sir,
present rate of service Tax is 10.3.
if am are right then breakup off that is following.

Service Tax 10 %
edu cess 2 %
higher edu cess 1 %
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10.3%

we are an ssi unit manufacturing excisable goods and doing labour job also for 3 rd parties . do we have to pay service tax on the labour jobs done by us.also the 3rd parties are not in excise

Please tell about service tax in sub contract.

Sir
A manufacturing has a few divisions. A Division (Div I) makes componets for another division (Div II). Div I also give some work outside on jobwork basis. The jobworker will raise a service invoice. Can Div I take Service tax Input? Div I further send those parts to Div II which makes final product.

We provide interior decorator services to our clients. In our bill, we charge a gross amount from our customers and we don't differentiate between the service portion and the Material portion. We pay service tax as follows:


Amount Liable to Service Tax = Gross Sales - Purchases

Are we correct?
Are we liable for VAT also?

Please help..

Respected Experts
One concern is providing two different services viz. beauty parlour service and engineering consultancy.

My question is: Can input credit of beauty parlour services be utilised for the payment of engineering consultancy service tax.

Whether service tax charged on repair expenses of MOTOR CAR will be eligible to take CENVAT CREDIT.