Pls tell me whether service tax paid for construction of commercial property can be taken as input service and carried forward for taking set off against rental income

Telephone service providers are paying service tax on SIM activation charges. SIM Card distributors are getting COMMISSION for the sale of SIM cards to the subscribers. Whether distributors are liable to pay service tax on the said COMMISSION. If yes, pl inform the category of service also.

service provider is registered under 3 category of services.
1.rent a cab
2.gta as provider
3.renting of immovable property

While calculating basic exemption limit of 10 lac whether we have to consider value of services provided as goods transport agency on which service tax liability is actually of consigner or consinee (i.e. service receiver)

I have filled online return but after filling the same i realized that have not mentioned the details of late filling fees in penalty & corr. challan of the same. I have done the same online by amendment in st3. now do i required to inform service tax department or what is process need to follow when amendment of st3 is done online.

Pl advice

How to identify thru the serv tax regn. no. that which type of service is a firm/co. providing & what is the penalty for collecting funds by providing wrong/forged serv. tax no. since someone is doing so with me.

Dear Experts,

Please advice whether an importer is liable to pay service tax on ocean freight charged by the CHA in case of import of raw materials. Lots of forum discussions and materials are available on this topic but due to lack of specific notification / circular, it seems to be difficult to reach a conclusion.

Thanks & Regards,
Amar Kant

Hi Experts/friends,
Whether service tax payable on receipt or accrual basis?

Hello Friends,

I just made a Payment towards Service Tax along with the Interest for delayed period.

Now, since the returns are pending for filing I also need to pay late filing Penalty of Rs.2000/-.

But I am not getting appropriate Codes for payment on the Link https://cbec.nsdl.com/EST/InputPageForEPaymentServlet

Is there any alternate way to make online payment, or I need to make it manually.

Is service tax applicable to real estate business?

We are engaged in plantation activity in government leased land for plantation of pulp wood required for our factory situated within radius of 70 km from plantation area.

we are engaging local contractors for harvesting, staking and transportation of wood from our captive plantation. We are of the opinian that the subject activity of harvesting and transportation of our captive wood does not attract service tax on the grounds that as the product in agriculture produce and is of our produce.

Any supporting casss to support our view and/or my view are not acceptable by service tax authority. Please through some light on this issue.