company in involving in doing civil works and cell tower maintenace works

in my opinion we can take the service tax on telephone bills.

can any one support me by providing any case law or notification

or rectify me if my opinion is wrong

An assessee let out its property at an annual rental @ 85000/- p.m i.e 10,20,000/- p.a. for the financial year 2009-10 (without any such condition of payment of service tax in rent agreement) . Also, he paid property tax amounting to Rs. 60,000/- p.a on such property.
If rent received during the year is reduced by Property tax paid during the year (As per Notification No : 24/2007 – ST, Dt : 22/05/2007) then the total receipt of rent goes below taxable limit of Rs. 10,00,000/-.
My question is that, whether this is allowable under Service tax Act or not.

Hi all

this is the case
we are civil contractors
we raised an invoice of Rs.10 lakhs to our customer
but the customer has paid only Rs.9 lakhs and for the remaining one lakh he sends a debit note showing is as liquidated damages.

my questions is whether we have to pay service tax on liquidated damages are not.

plz refer any case law for this.

Whether handling/storage of empty containers within a port area would attract service tax ?

Whether commissioning or installation services provided by an individual would be taxable?

Dear friends,
We have a xerox contract, for which the contractor is charging,both VAT and ST on the full bill amount. For example
Bill amount = 10000
Add VAT @ 8%= 800
ST @ 10.3% = 1030
(10.3% on 10000)
Total bill amounted to Rs. 11830.

Whether contractor is charging correct to us. I think there should be a bifurcation, for charging VAT and ST. Please help me in this matter.

Dear friends,
We have a xerox contract, for which the contractor is charging,both VAT and ST on the full bill amount. For example
Bill amount = 10000
Add VAT @ 8%= 800
ST @ 10.3% = 1030
(10.3% on 10000)
Total bill amounted to Rs. 11830.

Whether contractor is charging correct to us. I think there should be a bifurcation, for charging VAT and ST. Please help me in this matter.

our turnover from april 2010 till date is around Rs.13,00,000.00 In that we got payment for Rs.10,75,000.00

What is the amount of service tax payable and what is the last date for us to pay service tax ?

We got registered under service tax and newly started company. So can we pay service tax next year for this year turnover since we don't have any sales in the previous year ?

thanks in advance

i have one question about tax rate. one EPC construction co. make a contract in Dec. 2006 & agst this contract he recieved advance. & he start the work in april 2007.
as on 1/6/07 the composition scheme come & he opt for this scheme & start the paying tax on 1 sep.2007 first time @ when he receved the payment @ 2% & 4% whatever aplicable,but they not deposited the tax on advances they have received in 2006-07.
now they want to deposit the service tax.
What is the rate of tax he will pay. can he deposit the tax @ 2% +interest under composition scheme or he is liable for 12.36 % rate on that time exsisting services. Kindly help Me .

PLEASE TELL ME THAT CAN WE TAKE SERVICE TAX INPUT CREDIT ON RENTING ON IMMOVABLE PROPERTY.
PLEASE EXPLAIN IT WITH REASON. WE RECEIVE RENT ON OFFICE AND REGD. IN SERVICE OF RENTING OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY IN SERVICE TAX AND WE ALSO PAY RENT FOR OUR BRANCH OFFICE FOR BUSINESS SUPPORT.THAN CAN WE TAKE SERVICE TAX INPUT ?