A very funny situation has arisen. One of my clients, a mailing agency, has been asked to remit service tax on the postage franked for his clients by franking machines licensed by Post Office. The franking of postage is in lieu of physical stamp being affixed. The Indian post office Act says that it is a "duty" levied for transmission. In the account books of all business concerns, the postage is "liquid assets". The post office 'sells' postage, which means it is goods.
Further the TRU cell of Service Tax has notified that the basic mail services (which includes franking) of post office are exempted from ST. The post office also undertakes franking like mailing agency and charges different rates without any Service Tax.
I feel that the demand of Service Tax authorities that ST must be paid on the postage franked by my client is not valid.
What do the experts say? I am anxious.
S.Krishnamoorthy

In case a person owns two properties one in delhi and one in sonepat, whether separate registration is requires or he can take one registration for both the properties.

Is a party engaged in assembling of elevators and escalators liable for service tax or VAT.If so, kindly let me know the relevant section and circular.
The party supplies the material also.

Hello Friends,
Hotel is receiving laundry including dry cleaning services from outsider and booking as telephone/laundry expes.Further charging from its clients and booking as laundry/telephone income in its books of accounts.
Whether these laundry/telephoneincome will be included while calculating the thrase hold limit of Rs. 10 lacs.

Please give me suggestion.

CA. Babita Agarwal

If a US based company provides a service via internet to people in India, will it attract service tax?
Should the company have a service tax registration as a foreign entity?


Thanks
Praveen

In a work contract agreement it is in practice to provide sum as mobilisation advance to the service provider.

i) Whether service provider is liable to pay the Service tax on realisation basis without rendering the services?

In addition to above we would like to know whether a wooden furniture providing and fixing work at office premises is attracted to serive tax while the above work has includes all the materials.

We are doing job work/conversion to a manufacturer, it is semi-finished good. and we are receiving the raw material from the manufactuter. is service tax is applicable for job work charges?

in service like counsulting engineer software service is not included.
so can we say that service of software consulting is exempted service

or

service which are not included in that 100+ service mentioned in section 66 can be called as exepmted service

plz if possible give refrence to any provision

When I search in Query lists for my problem I found one answer of an Expert :

Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Varshney
Posted On : 8/16/2007 1:31:57 AM

"The limit of Rs 1500/- is applicable for full truck load means truck / vehicle carrying only your goods. If each truck carry separate GR below Rs 1500/- then no Service Tax liability on you."

But
as per "Notification No. 34/2004 - Service Tax
1.
(i) the gross amount charged on consignments transported in a goods carriage does not exceed rupees one thousand five hundred; or

(ii) the gross amount charged on an individual consignment transported in a goods carriage does not exceed rupees seven hundred fifty

2. This notification shall come into force on the first day of January, 2005."

can anyone clear my Confusion, especially Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Varshney if possible.

Thankig You
Manoj

please let me know if the service tax is applicable for a laundry services other than dry cleaning?