a invoice is raised on 15 th june & service tax paid accordingly before 5th feb. Subsequently bill gets revised on 20th ocober, amount of bill got reduced. my question is that as service tax paid in excess biiling can be adjusted for future ? if yes if there is any time limit for the same ?

I AM C.A FINAL STUDENT.ONE OF MY CLIENTS SERVICE TAX RETURN SHOWED SAVED OPTION. SERVICE TAX DEPARTMENT ISSUED NOTICE FOR NON-FILING OF RETURN. AS RETURN WAS FILED WITH SAVED OPTION , IT WAS NOT REFLECTION IN DEPARTMENT DATABASE. DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDED TO CORRECT THE RETURN. MY QUERY IS AS WHETHER IT ATTRACT PENALTY U/S 77 OF SERVICE TAX.

sir, i wanted to know about theshold exemption to small service provider? Is it applicable to every year depending upon amount of service tax payable in p.y.?

We are working as a Broking House. We have taken cable connection for knowing day to day prices of share market for our clients.

Whether we are eligible to take input credit of service tax charged in the invoice of cable operator?

If yes, under which section?

Kindly guide us.

Assessee has taken warehouse on lease and rent it out to various importers and traders on rent basis. In warehouse only agriculture produce are stored. Is assessee liable for service tax or not on rent paid to warehouse owner? also whether he must charge service tax on warehousing of agricultural produce from its customers.

Mr.A is registered as service provider and providing service to Mr.B and collect service tax and pay to the department accordingly.
Mr. A also receiving services from Mr.C but the turnover of Mr. C is not above Rs.10lakhs.
In this case whether Mr.A is under obligation to make payment of service tax on behalf of Mr.C just because of the reason that Mr.A is registered so he has to pay service tax directly to the department on service provided as well as received?

Sir

To fill the service tax ST-3 for works contract service, I want to know the abatement notification number and serial
number to take 60% abatement

Thanking you

My client want to ( individual) make the payment for the period October 2012 to December 2012 -as he has billed and received the payment in 1st week of November, then is there any change in Form of payment of challan under new amendment wef from 01/07/2012( though quarter ending date is before 5 th January 2013

Hi,
Please clarify the calculation for reverse charge mechanism for supply of manpower.How to calculate it.
sample copy of invoice which i have given to my client are as follows:
manpower supply - Rs 147000
management fees- 12857
Service tax 12.36%- 19758
Total invoice amount is 179615.
But i got the money from my client is Rs 176615.
So, Plz let me know,how it is calculated?

Dear Members,

What does invoking of extended period mean? What is its basic meaning?