Service tax on educational trust

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R VAIDYANATHAN (Querist)
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20 August 2012 service tax fully exempted for eductional trust or not

what is the latest servicetax amendments for educational trust (For Exemption) FY2012-13

CA CS Amit S. Kedia

CA CS Amit S. Kedia (Expert)
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20 August 2012 Services provided to or by an educational institution in respect of education
exempted from service tax, by way of,-
(b) auxiliary educational services; or
(c) renting of immovable property;

CA Sourabh Goenka

CA Sourabh Goenka (Expert)
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20 August 2012 Dear Amit,

This exemption contains to or by both words.That means if services provided by any other person to the educational institution then it is also comes in the exempiton and does not levy service tax in the bill.

Whether I am right or not??

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CA Suresh Jain

CA Suresh Jain (Expert)
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21 August 2012 Your question is whether service tax is fully exempted for educational trust. The answer is "educational trust as such is not exempted from service tax"

It is Services provided to or by an educational institution in respect of education exempted from service tax, by way of,-

(a) auxiliary educational services; or

(b) renting of immovable property

Both the above experts are right

CA Sourabh Goenka

CA Sourabh Goenka (Expert)
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21 August 2012 Sir, It means if any repair & maintenance work, or consultancy by architect taken by educational trust, and they raise the bill with the inclusive of service tax, then educational trust have to pay the service tax for taking this services..

But services taken for teaching the students, then it will be exempt from tax..

Pls give rply as soon as possible...