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Shahansha Iqbal (Querist)
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04 March 2014 A service tax inquiry is being done all over India of all d contractors from their tds statement filed by them for d fy 2012-13. on inquiry it was found that most of them hv not taken Registration of service tax and providing services to Ccl. there contention is dat since they hv not taken registration they don't hv to pay service tax. is it true if not then how much they sud pay service tax. pls answer.

CA Siddhartha Bhardwaj

CA Siddhartha Bhardwaj (Expert)
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04 March 2014 If a person is liable to pay service tax they CANNOT escape the liability by claiming that they are not registered under service tax.

It was MANDATORY for them to get registered as well as pay service tax.

They have not complied with BOTH the provisions.

Accordingly, penal provisions will be attracted.