can a person registered under maintenance and repair services for service tax claim abatement of 67%

Dear Sir,

We have received a bill for services provided in India from a foreign company for USD 1260. Now we have to bear the tax liability on that. and we grossed up the TDS liability as 1260*10/(100-10)= 140 USD.
Now this being import of services we have to pay service tax as a service receiver. Now the question as to how the service tax liability would be calculated. on 1260 or on (1260+140=1400. or any other method.
Kidnly elaborate the answer.

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.