Liability of service tax for service provided outside india


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10 December 2014 Hello all,

One of my friend is running firm which creates websites for the companies situated outside india

and his turnover is more than 10 lacs

Now, my question is that is he liable for service tax ?
and is liable to get registered under service tax act ?


Pls reply

10 December 2014 the ans is yes he is liable.

10 December 2014 Agreed yes it will be applicable.
As per Rule 3 of place of provision of services,

location of Sp will be considered

10 December 2014 Sir, if possible pls explain in detail with provision relating to it .....


As i thought it will be exempted as export of services

11 December 2014 In this case when service is provided outside india then service provider has to bear the service tax

11 December 2014 Mr Dhawal - Al though it is Export of service but its Place of provision is falling u/r 3 -i.e. location of SP.

Hence taxable

11 December 2014 Rule 3 of POPS, 2012 speaks of place of provision in general. All other rules are specific in nature.

I have laid out Rule 3 for analysis;

Place of provision generally.- The place of provision of a service shall be the location of the recipient of service:

Provided that in case the location of the service receiver is not available in the ordinary course of business, the place of provision shall be the location of the provider of service.

After reading paragraph 1 it is clear that the place of provision will be considered that of the service receipient and not service provider. In our case the firm is engaged in developing websites for clients based out of India. The place of provision in such cases would be out of India and hence would be treated as export.

Taxability:-
Since the services are provided out of India they would be exempt subject to:
*Provider is in taxable territory (Condition Satisfied)
* Receipient is located os India (Condition Satisfied)
*Service is not in Negative List (Condition Satisfied)
* Place of Provision of Service is outside India (Condition Satisfied u/r 3)
* Payment has been received in foreign exchange (Condition needs verification)


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