Please tell me the recent amendment in service tax withdrawing the exemption of service tax on senior advocates and definition of senior advocates.
What type of services provided by senior advocates are liable to service tax and whether legal service provided by law firm is also covered in this ambit.

Dear,
My client is (P) Ltd. Co. They have Service tax registration No. at Mumbai Address. They want to open a branch office in Delhi
a) Should they apply for another Service Tax No. for Delhi Branch or the earlier Service tax No. would work for Delhi too
Please Help URGENT

In case of service provided and invoiced before 1-6-16 but for which Payment is received after the said date, will Rule 4 of point of taxation rules apply or Rule 5 of the said rules apply, with respect to krishi Kalyan cess ?

I have a Question on advances?? Suppose Mr X has Purchased a Flat which is under construction from a Construction Company Say ABC Pvt Ltd and Paid a Rs. 1000000/- as advance to the company as booking Amt. Total amount of Flat (Rs. 5000000). Now the Company has paid Service tax on this Amount as POT rules Falls when advance Recevied on Rs. 1000000. But Mr X has Paid the Balance amount of Rs. 4000000 after Completion of Construction of Flat, My question is that the Company ABC Pvt Ltd is required to pay service tax on Rs. 40 Lakh which is recevied by company after Completion of construction. (further it comes under defination of service or not as sale of immovable property)

Whether Service tax is applicable on Construction Service Provided to Private Limited Company for Construction of Hostel?

If Applicable Whether any Abatement/Exemption is Available?

If Possible please provide some material regarding this?

Dear Sir/Madam, Below are few queries I have regarding service tax : 1. Rent a Cab - we are renting cab for our employees for night shift..Vendor is charging 50% of Service Tax and he is individual.. can the company take Cenvat Input Credit ? 2. accommodation - our employees took accommodation in other city for client meetings etc. Hotel ppl charged Cenvat Input Credit... can company take this Input Credit ? 3. On client invoices - we were issuing original invoice copy say 15/16/001 but when same invoice had some changes in invoice amount, we never collected original invoice but raised a revised invoice no. as 15/16/001 revised... we have paid correct to ST dept but can our client consider twice input credit for this ? if yes, how to avoid this in future ?

One of the residential welfare association (RWA) wants to claim exemption from collecting & paying service tax on certain expenses, which will be reimbursed by the members proportionately on an actual basis. Say for example : Salary & wages paid to staff, House keeping material purchased, etc

Please suggest

Sir,

we are are civil contractor company, we had made a JV to carry out the Parking work of a State, the Work was issued by the Local Authority of the state and non commercial work as the work was to avoid congestion of traffic. as we had just made JV for this project and as per notification 25/2012 , the same work was exempted hence we had not registered ourself in service tax & we had not levied ST to Client in our Invoices and not they had given also . now we had received a SCN stating that we had to pay ST on the same work, however we had informed regarding the exemption but the officer is not ready to listen, and he his also saying that we had to get registered to service tax?

what to do now?

pls reply

Sir,
1.We have received GTA bills in the month of May,16 & we have service tax paid on 05.06.2016 So That here is my quires we pay the said duty as per previous rate 14.5% or New Rate @15%?
2. we have received our wages bills in the month of April,16 Or May,16 As per RCM we pay the said service Tax @14.5% or 15%?

Kindly clear my point ASAP.
Thanking You
Gautam

how one can pay KCC for payments recd in the month of june for invoice which was issue before 01.06.16 . as per POTR date of invoice is Point of taxation then y to pay KCC again