06 November 2009
Dear Sir, Service tax billed is taxable on receipt basis. Then, what about partially realised bills, whether whole of the service tax billed is remitted to government or proportionately related to collection?
06 November 2009
Tax payable only on amount actually received
Rule 6(1) of Service Tax Rules makes it clear that service tax is payable on value of taxable services received. Thus, if service provider does not receive any payment from his customer, there is no liability of service tax. Service tax is payable only on ‘value of taxable service’ actually ‘received’, and not on amount ‘billed’.
If the service receiver does not pay full amount of Bill and pays less amount, reasonable interpretation is that proportionately less tax is payable.
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