Our company is engage in chemical manufacturing .and export the finished goods.

we have appointed one shipping company for transportation of material from India to other country .
the shipping company is sending our container through other shipping company .
we want to know that can we avail service tax credit on ocean freight .
our shipping company made debit note for ocean freight ,but they have not separate shown the amount of service tax .
they have only attached the onother shipping company invoice .
can we avail the service tax credit ?

1)Is to possible to deduct service tax on gta who has a st registration and contaning a declaration of no cenvat credit.
2)loading goods to customer on "to pay basis" and paying some advance by the seller to the transporter on behalf of buyer.
ex.selelr sells goods on "to pay" basis rs.55000 and advnace some amount on behalf of buyer rs.10000. at what amout seller is liable to deduct service tax if he is to deduct tax.
a) is the seller liable to deduct service tax on whole amount (or) for the amount of advances.

Dear Sir,

We have received work for doing Electrical work to International airport as Sub-contractor.

please give us the rate of service tax.

Thanking You

we are C&F Agent of petroleum company.we receive commission from petroleum company as well as transport expenses @6 per km.we also hire other transporters(ahoc trnsport) to carry goods of petroleum company.
My Query is that whether we have to pay service tax at the time of raising the bill(commission bill) to petroleum company or at the time of receiving pyt from petro.company.
i also want to know whether we have to pay service tax in case of adhoc transportation(hiring other transporters)or whether transporters have to pay service tax.

dear sir,

what is difference of service tax & tds??

We provide interior decorator services to our clients. In our bill, we charge a gross amount from our customers and we don't differentiate between the service portion and the Material portion. We pay service tax as follows:


Amount Liable to Service Tax = Gross Sales - Purchases

Are we correct?
Are we liable for VAT also?

Please help..

If an individual getting commerical rent from letting his shop shall he/ she attract service tax .. .


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Respected Experts
One concern is providing two different services viz. beauty parlour service and engineering consultancy.

My question is: Can input credit of beauty parlour services be utilised for the payment of engineering consultancy service tax.

Dear All,

We want to pay the license fee to vendor located at Dubai. THe amount of License fees is USD 125000/- Do the foreign remittance will attract service tax since we are making the payment to them. If yes, than would it attrack TDS also?

Please reply soon

If a company had registration under service tax in more than one service and further the return for the same is late due to some reasons and know the company wants to file return for one service not all the services then late penalty is common to all the services or not ie same challan for all the returns or not.Please Reply.