how much late we can pay service tax to avail credit of service tax?
for eg if we pay service tax of 1.01.2002 now on december 2009 then can v avail cenvat credit on the same?

Is there any penalty on filing revised ST Return? In the last return the ST Credit was not availed now we want to file revised Return. What is the procedure for that? IS there any separate form?

s there any service tax on machine embriodery

Whether education cess and surcharge is applicable on service tax since 1.10.2009

i want to ask that
i have paid service tax in december 2009 to the service provider against the bill of september 2008. can i get the credit of this payment?
that is can i get the credit of service tax paid to service provider against the bills of previous years? and if yes then till what time period?

There is 75% abatement in case of GTA for service tax purpose. now many COURIER companies also provide service of transportation of goods by road.
please TELL ME HOW A COURIER COMPANY CAN REGISTER THEMSELVES FOR "GTA" or COVER THE SERVICES OF GTA SO THAT :
" ABATEMENT 75% FOR GTA CAN BE THERE"

i want to ask that if the service tax has been paid by the company in december 2009 for the period of september 2008. then can the company avail credit of the same ? please explain this.
i.e. if the company paid service tax of perevious years then can it avail the credit of the same?

1.When is service tax on rent applicable.(Is the Limit Rs.8,00,000)?
2.Is service tax applicable on Residential Rent?
3.Mr.X has commercial rental income from Place A - Rs.7,20,000 and Place B - Rs.6,00,000. Is service Tax applicable in this case.
Note: Assessee is assessed in Chennai and all queries are subject to Chennai

Dear members
Our firm is a prop.ship firm with 100% EOU located at Information technology park in Chandigarh.
We are providing 100% service related to pharma covigilence to foreign clients located in different countries through IT enabled system.
We are not giving any tax on our profit/income as we have get tax holidays because of 100 % EOU status.
We purchase Information technology items like Hardware/software from India as well as from Foreign countries also.We pay Service tax and CST/VAT on purchase of these items.
Now my question is that can we get any refund of these taxes ie Service tax and CST/VAT?
please note that we have no Service tax and TIN no becouse we are not giving any output tax.
IF we are eligible to get this then what will be the procedure for this?And can we get refund of tax paid in the past?

Waiting for rply as it is very urgent..
thnx in Advance...

hello everyone,

one of our client's business is to transport goods from one state to another. He owns goods transport vehicles for this purpose.

he has been charging service tax @3.09% on the billed amount.

is it proper.