Can credit of service tax paid on telephone bills/courier bills be availed by manufacturers under cenvat credit..?? And what if the same case is with the taxable service providers??
Under cenvat credit rules, are manufactuers allowed to take the credit of input duty paid and input service tax paid from output duty simultaneously.?

I have received a Bill of Software Installation which did not include matter of Installation charges, Total Bill amount is only of software. But Service Tax is charged in Bill......


Que 1 :- Can Supplier charge Service Tax on Such ( only amount of material (Software) ) Bill ?
Que 2 :- Can we get credit of such service tax?

I have hired a taxi for business purpose but the taxi owner provided the bill for the same service excluding service tax .Is the service tax is to be paid by me or when i can ask for a bill with service tax.Kindly advice & provide the reference if any

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Please advise, if service tax on under-construction property is to be paid by cheque or cash to the builder.In case if it is paid by cash what documents to be collected by builder as a proof?

The co. is reimbursing the bills of mobile phones and landline phones of the employees.
and the connection of mobile phone and landline is in the name of the employee.
The co. is taking input credit of the amount of service tax paid on the bills of phones.
Can the co. take the input credit of that amount of service tax?

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Please advise me, is their any limit for adjusting the service tax paid?

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Abhi

Sir, we are in business of importing product and trading in india. During Import, we pay Basic custom duty, CVD, cess, Additional duty 4%. We sell product in India levying sales tax (No Excise). We also charge our customer for installation & repair of the product and raise Service charge Bill levying Service Tax 10.3%. My Query is whether we can take custom duty paid as cenvat credit agst Service tax payable?
pl advice.

Please confirm that when i am filling my service tax return for financial year 2010-11 (Both Half) on 10-1-2012 then my penalty amount should be 2000 or 20,000 whenever

I think that penalty on earlier year return should not be more then 2000/-

As per Section 71 (C) of the Finance Act 2011 (8 of 2011) Applicable from 1st April Unless Otherwise specified there was an amendment in Sub Section (1) of section 70 which is as follows:-

‘in Section 70 (1) of the Finance Act, 1994, for the words “two thousand rupees”, the words “twenty thousand rupees” shall be substituted’.

My client had taken Service tax Registration Number long before, but they had no Service Tax liability to pay, hence for all the past year's return was not filed till this date.Now i would like to know that failure of non filing of such Nil return will be penalised or not? We want to surrender our registration number, please let me know ,how to surrender my registration Number? Deparment has issued notice for non filing return of service tax,these notices are sustainable in Law or not?Please reply at your earliest.

dear expert pls tell me what is the interest rate for late payment of tax, is it 1.5% p.m or part of a month and before it was 1.25% p.m what is the applicable date if we pay today and we are late by 1 year should we calculate taking both the rate rep its very urgent

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