for taking cenvat credit for the return of 1st april to 30th june 2012,service tax is paid to telecommunication company for the bill which is for the period 01/03/2012 to 31/03/2012 but due date is 15/04/2012. so is service tax credit taken in these return? which date is considered? is it bill date or recieved date or due date or period of bill?

Dear All,
Can any one help me please on this issue...
One of my client had given his open land in lease for parking of 4wheelars & 2wheelars to a bank. Now he is getting monthly rent from the bank.Whether he has to pay service tax or not for the rent received upto June-12. If yes, under which service he has to pay tax.. Thanks in advance

Dear Colleagues,

One of our clients paid excess Service Tax in previous year by mistake, so do we need to revise those return before filling current year ST-3 or we Can adjust the excess paid Service tax..
please guide me in this regards with details..

a invoice is raised on 15 th june & service tax paid accordingly before 5th feb. Subsequently bill gets revised on 20th ocober, amount of bill got reduced. my question is that as service tax paid in excess biiling can be adjusted for future ? if yes if there is any time limit for the same ?

I AM C.A FINAL STUDENT.ONE OF MY CLIENTS SERVICE TAX RETURN SHOWED SAVED OPTION. SERVICE TAX DEPARTMENT ISSUED NOTICE FOR NON-FILING OF RETURN. AS RETURN WAS FILED WITH SAVED OPTION , IT WAS NOT REFLECTION IN DEPARTMENT DATABASE. DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED TO CORRECT THE RETURN. MY QUERY IS AS WHETHER IT ATTRACT PENALTY U/S 77 OF SERVICE TAX.

sir, i wanted to know about theshold exemption to small service provider? Is it applicable to every year depending upon amount of service tax payable in p.y.?

We are working as a Broking House. We have taken cable connection for knowing day to day prices of share market for our clients.

Whether we are eligible to take input credit of service tax charged in the invoice of cable operator?

If yes, under which section?

Kindly guide us.

Assessee has taken warehouse on lease and rent it out to various importers and traders on rent basis. In warehouse only agriculture produce are stored. Is assessee liable for service tax or not on rent paid to warehouse owner? also whether he must charge service tax on warehousing of agricultural produce from its customers.

Mr.A is registered as service provider and providing service to Mr.B and collect service tax and pay to the department accordingly.
Mr. A also receiving services from Mr.C but the turnover of Mr. C is not above Rs.10lakhs.
In this case whether Mr.A is under obligation to make payment of service tax on behalf of Mr.C just because of the reason that Mr.A is registered so he has to pay service tax directly to the department on service provided as well as received?

Sir

To fill the service tax ST-3 for works contract service, I want to know the abatement notification number and serial
number to take 60% abatement

Thanking you