a civil contractor received mobilization advance at an interest of 12% against an equal amount of bank guarantee.
Will service tax be payable on this at the time of receipt or as and when the RA's are raised and this advance is adjusted

My client is in civil contract business.He mainly working in construction in roads and construction of sites ie.Construction of suger factory plats,Development work for Maharashtra Stae Elecricity Board(MSEB)and private Buildings. What are the provisions in service tax in this regard and what precaution we can take.

Can a custom house agent avail input credit on service tax paid for fumigation services taken from third party on behalf of its client(importer)

Suppose the Freight bill received from an GTA on which no service tax is charged ( as freight will be payable by us) contain following items:

Freight RS. 3000
Service Charges RS. 100
Hamali Charges RS. 50
Extra Charges RS. 50
Total Amt. Rs. 3200


The Co. wants to take abatement @ 75%

My Query is:

Service tax payable on 25% of freight will be calculated on RS. 3000 (i.e. on Freight amt. only) or Rs.3200 (i.e. on total amt. including above charges).

Pl let me know general heads on which, I can claim service tax

sir i am planning to start a web based and sms based service by forming pvt ltd company


will i be liable to service tax as for providing sms based services about the prices of commdity or shares

for this service will i be liable to any other taxes

Dear Sir,

Generally I used to visit your website and study myself to get knowledge; I have one small question which I am facing right now in my organization.

A Foreign company established in USA got short time assignments in India from State Government; now foreign company wants to work with one of Indian company registered in India.

So one of the expatriate of foreign company will stay in India for the assignments.

Indian company will provide manpower & infrastructure like part of our office building / internet / vehicle / communication / printing & stationery / Guest house etc for the completion of the assignments.

Therefore agreement will be made under two heads (a) Remuneration (b) Reimbursable Expenses / Operating Expenses.

Now my question is:

1) Should we invoice in Indian Rupees or US dollar.
2) Service tax will be applicable or not. If applicable then on what remuneration / Expenses or both.
(one point to be borne in mind: that Indian company will not be in positions to provide bills for the expenditure because they will be using part our office building / vehicle etc, so Indian company will charging Lump sum(LS) per month.



Please help me, expecting a line feedback from you sir,

Respects

Jyoti
jsahoo@sify.com

my client is running a karate school. he said that he does not come under service tax. so please guide me that whether karate coaching is out of perview of service tax or not

DearSir, today i have got a letter from iim lucknow stating that they r not exempted from service tax and we should quote for tender for construction of class room blocks considering the service tax is applicable.Is there any notification to support that govt affliated educatinal institutes r exempted from paying service tax on construction.

Whether service tax will be levied on Fabrication and Galvanization work done by us on material provided by customer.
If yes under which category and whther any abatement is there?????