08 August 2012
dear Sir, Please advise me on my following query- we have purchased a new office from the builder. he is doing construction of our new office as per drawing.we are paying him amount on installament basis means compelition of specific work. earlier he was not chargeing the Service tax on basic installament. but now when he ask for next installment he has add service tax @ 3.09% on basic amount.when I ask for explanation he told that in earliar also there was service tax but not collected from you. Now he is ready to give us the already amount paid plus service tax amount bill. and ask us to paid service tax amount. My query is - 1) can we availed the cenvat credit on service tax charged after payment. 2) can we take one bill for all installment amount paid.