The assessee is liable to service tax as service receiver. can he avail basic exemption limit of Rs. 10 lacs.?

Irecently read the excellent file by Mr. Madhukr sir - Understanding the service tax concepts.

I read the service receiver cannot avail basic exemption - can more resource circulars/notifications be shared in this regard as i want to understand y a service receiver be penalised or say seen liable to tax from first penny of payment for receiving a service?

whether service tax is applicable on contruction contracts received from educational institutions and from military department and on what basis

I am a service receiver & provider bcs i have started vodafone agecy.company is giving sicards,recharge coupoun,etopup invoice.in april to sept'10 I have given Rs.47,58,480.39 Basic + Rs.5,12,284.61 Service tax amount to Company.
my que. is i have not raised any invoice but need to file st-3 how do i filed the return.?

Respected Sir,
I have query regarding Service tax credit in the books.

my company is in telemarkiting of Buety product. we purchase the product for USA in bulck and pack them as per our requiredment at through Job work and pay excise duty and sele them through telemarkiting. we receive lot of bill for advertisement co. and for consultant have service tax but we do not take the credit of service tax. could you pls advcie me whether we are elegible to take the credit of servcie tax.
I am asking this question based on the decision in case of Papsi co. where it is allowed to take the credit of servcie tax in reletion to media exp releted.

hi,
if i want to surrender my service tax account then what is proceed-er and form and rule.

pls sugges me.

If we are getting the service from Labour supply.

Now if we reimburse the payment of Employer contribution towards PF.

will this reimburesment be covered under service tax????

A person(individual) gets service tax registration number in july 2010 (say).

However he is renderring services from start of the F.Y i.e., April 2010.Also he uses taxable input services in renderring such output services.

He is paying the service tax amount along with interest for the two quarters Q1 and Q2 of F.Y 10-11 in october 2010.

Can he avails the credit of input services which are used by him in months of april, may and june (i.e., before obtaining service tax registration number).

Is it mandatory that the assesse should possess ST reg.no at the time of receipt of input services to availd creidt of service tax on such input services?

Please quote any referrence sections.

Note: All bills of input services were paid by the said individual.

Hi,

Our company has done Insurance for Employees & their dependents, premium paid 5 Lakh + Service Tax of Rs. 51,500/-.

My question is this Can our company take service tax input credit of Rs. 51,500/- or not, please explain.

Thanks & waiting for your reply...

Dalton

we have regularly filled service tax returns st-3 , but have not filled any separate return for cenvat , we have received notice of service tax audit where they have mentioned st-3 and cenvat return as per rule9(7),
my question is st-3 includes return as per 9(7) or it some other return we have to file?

what will be the consequences in audit as we have not filled any separate return under 9(7) ?

In the Service tax return ST-3 form column F gross amount received against service ,Is need to be filled ...... If i want to avail the exemption under notification no.6/2005.


some person is saying fill column F(I)C ii but my point is that it is for amt recd for exempted service but in my case service is taxable but i am taking the exemption as SSP.

what to do plz help