26 May 2009
My company is a education service provider pvt. ltd. Co., Earlier we were paying service tax on rent, but april '09 onward we are confused to pay service tax on rent because delhi high court given decision. but department of service tax didn't take any action regarding this judgement. please suggest us we should pay service tax on rent to premises owner or hold service tax for next judgement.
27 May 2009
If you are an educational body you are not required to pay ST at all from the beginning as you are excluded in the deifntion itslef. But you should not be a commercial coaching centre.
After the DHC decision the dept may appeal to the SC. There appears to be a good case for not paying however this is not guaranteed.
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