Service tax

Ramakrishnaraju (supervisor) (211 Points)

03 October 2014  

I have made an advance payment for Marriage Hall in chennai for an amount of Rs.50,000/- for a date in Feb.2015. Suddenly due to some reasons, the programme was cancelled and the Manager of the Marriage Hall says that he will return only 45,000/- as he had paid service tax. How is it possible to make service tax on Advance payment? Is he right in claiming this?