Service Tax Articles

Govt exempts certain services from purview of Service Tax

Posted by MONISH BHALLA 03 July 2010 9141 Views

The Service Tax department has come out with an exemption bonanza for various sectors ranging from air travel to construction industry. These exemptions will come in effect from July 1, 2010. The services related to air transport of passe

Unending saga of painful journey of litigations

Posted by MONISH BHALLA 30 June 2010 5318 Views

With the Goods and Service tax round the corner, the absorption of cascading effect of taxes on input services and goods becomes all the more important. The scope of meaning of the terminology used in the statutory laws creates a major hurdle is s

FAQ on Service Tax on Construction of Residential & Commercial Premises

Posted by CA Pradip Shah 30 June 2010 8198 Views

Introduction:1.0 What changes have been effected by the Finance Bill, 2010 with respect to construction of commercial / industrial premises and residential complexes?Following changes have been carried out by the Finance Bill, 2010.1) Del

Service Tax on Healthcare Service

Posted by CA. SRIKANTHA RAO T 30 June 2010 24986 Views

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Service Tax on Job Work

Posted by deepak K Gujrati 25 June 2010 25547 Views

As per section 65(105)(zzb) of Chapter V of Finance Act 1994 as amended from time to time, taxable service means any service provided or to be provided to a client by any person in relation to business auxiliary service.

Service tax wrongly levied on Interest/Finance charges

Posted by Seetharaman K C 24 June 2010 13237 Views

It has come to my notice that several banks are charging service tax on interest and finance charges on credit card payments. In certain cases although the nomenclature is clearly mentioned as “Interest” still the bank has charged servic

Sequence to Uniqueness for Associated Enterprises

Posted by Pradeep Jain 23 June 2010 5608 Views

Prepared By:CA Pradeep Jain,CA Ridhi Anchalia andSukhvinder Kaur, LLB [FYIC]Introduction: - Every Finance Act brings with it some new services under the purview of the Service Tax. The Associated Enterprises were also a part of those services that we

Basic understading of service tax

Posted by Renuka 21 June 2010 114736 Views

Basically Taxes are of two types those are direct and indirect taxes.

Packaged softwares - Are they completely out of service tax?

Posted by CA S.SAIRAM 16 June 2010 10650 Views

PACKAGED SOFTWARES –ARE THEY COMPLETELY OUT OF SERVICE TAX? After a lot of deliberations and conclusions the Service tax department finally issued a circular (No.17/2010 dt.27.2.2010) exempting the packaged or canned software from Service t

Service Tax on GTA - Good deal to the Government?

Posted by CA S.SAIRAM 14 June 2010 9964 Views

SERVICE TAX ON GTA: GOOD DEAL FOR THE GOVERNMENT? For quite some time until now, the Government has made the Courts and Tribunal extremely preoccupied ever since the levy of Service tax on Goods Transport Agency. The Intention of the Government