As per section 65B(54) of the Finance Act, 2012, “works contract” means a contract wherein transfer of property in goods involved in the execution of such contract is leviable to tax as sale of goods and such contract is for the purpose of carrying out construction, erection, commissioning, installation, completion, fitting out, improvement, repair, renovation, … Read more
Now its costlier affair if you pay the service tax delayed because more you make the delay higher the interest you need to pay. Now you need to pay interest up to 30% if your delay for service tax payment is more than one year. The details of interest rate are shown in the table … Read more
Circular No.: 990/14/2014-CX-8 F. No. 267/72/2013-CX.8 (Pt) Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Excise and Customs ************* New Delhi, the 19th of November, 2014 To, Principal Chief Commissioners/Chief Commissioners of Central Excise (All) Principal Chief Commissioners/Chief Commissioners of Central Excise of Central Excise & Customs (All) Director General, Directorate … Read more
Circular No. 180/06/2014 – ST F. No 354/105/2012-TRU (Pt.) Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Excise and Customs Tax Research Unit Room No 153, North Block, New Delhi Dated 14th October, 2014 To Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise (All) Chief Commissioner of Central Excise & Service Tax … Read more
Abatement means reduction or decrease of amount from taxable value of services. Service provider has to pay service tax after arriving at appropriate value of service as per section 67 of Finance Act, 1994 read with the Service Tax (Determination of Value) Rules, 2006. The Government can provide for reduction in the value of any … Read more
Section 83 of the Finance Act, 1994 makes certain provisions of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (CEA) applicable to service tax. Section 11B of CEA provides for refund which is also applicable to refunds of service tax. Claim of refund of service tax should be filed in the prescribed format; i.e. in Form R to … Read more
Legal Service has been defined in Notification No. 25/2012 dated 20th June 2012 as any service provided in relation to advice, consultancy or assistance in any branch of law, in any manner and includes representational services before any court, tribunal or authority. After reading this definition in detail, we can see that legal services include representational … Read more
Earlier, there was no definition for ‘export of service’ under Finance Act, 1994 or the related rules. It was then clarified that service tax is a destination based consumption tax and that it is not applicable on export of services. Then, Export of Services Rules, 2005 were issued for giving a clear idea on export of services. These rules went … Read more
Every service provider may also a service receiver. Whenever he receives any service, he pays service tax on it to the service provider. Similarly, if he purchases raw materials or capital goods, he pays excise duty on the said goods.This system of taking credit on the tax paid and using the credit for the tax payable … Read more
After the recent amendments in service tax laws, we have quite often come across the words “Negative List”. Simply put, a negative list of services means a list of services which will not be charged to service tax. This also means that, all other services, other than those mentioned in the negative list will be taxable. (For latest amendment of … Read more