Import of service

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WE TEST SOME SAMPLE  OF  MATERIAL OUTSIDE INDIA  AS OUR BUYER REQUIRE THIS LABORTORY CERTIFICATE

MATERAIL SEND FROM INDIA BY COURIER

WE DEDUCT TDS & ALSO DEPOSITED SAME UNDER SEC 195

WE RECEIVED SERVICE OUTSIDE INDIA

WHETHER WE PAY SERVICE TAX FOR THE SAME AS IMPORT OF SERVICE

PLEASE REPLY WITH ANY CIRCULARS

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Service tax is not applicalbe as service rendererd outside India.

U can very well explain to tax authorties that service is performed outside the country.

For technical testing and certification service, situs of service recipient is the criteria. Your company is situated in India and hence it amounts import of service.

WHETHER SERVICE TAX PAYBALE ON THIS

 

COMPANY WHICH PROVIDE THE SERVICE IS NOT HAVING PERMANEANT EASTABLISHMNT OF INDIA

The provider of sergvice not having PE in India has no relevance. As importer of service you are liable to service tax. But it is cenvatable if the service falls within the scope of input service.

YES,,RIGHT SAID ABOVE...

AGREE.....

 

we received service outside india & utilised outside india , material which are send for testing from india

 

 

Import of service

Tax payable by recipient under reverse charge

In case of import of service, tax is payable by recipient of services under method of ‘reverse charge’. Tax should be paid by cash i.e. GAR-7 challan and then Cenvat credit can be availed of the tax so paid, as it is his input service.

Tax only if service is received in India

Tax is payable only when service is received in India. Services provided and used outside India cannot be taxed in India.

Conditions to treat a service as ‘import’

To determine the issue whether a provision of service is ‘import of service’, services have been classified in three categories. Criteria for each category has been specified e.g. immovable property  India, service performed in India, recipient is located in India

only the testing copy of the bill received it doest not mean that service received in india

as per import service rules service tax payable only if service received in india

I think the classification is slightly confusing. If it is classifiable under technical tsting and analysis (65(105)zzh), then  situation of the recipient is the test. My answers were based on this asssumption. Whereas for service classifiable under technical inspection and certification (65(105)zzi) , performance is the test. If the subject service is classified under the latter head, it is not import of service as the same is performed out side India.

 

Conditions to treat a service as ‘import’

To determine the issue whether a provision of service is ‘import of service’, services have been classified in three categories. Criteria for each category has been specified e.g. immovable property  India, service performed in India, recipient is located in India

 

 

lab has billed in your name, so you are the service receipent, does not matter for whom you have obtained the certificate.

But what for this condition

 

Tax only if service is received in India

Tax is payable only when service is received in India. Services provided and used outside India cannot be taxed in India.

Originally posted by : valji

But what for this condition

 





Tax only if service is received in India



Tax is payable only when service is received in India. Services provided and used outside India cannot be taxed in India.



 

if the said service is asked by your client directly, certificate issued in his favor directly, and payment made by you ,then ST provisions may not attract,

Here the tests are asked by yourself and certificates are isssued to yourself, that establish the import of services

 

 

 

 

There are three services covered under your definition 

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY SERVICES 65(105)(za)

TECHNICAL TESTING AND ANALYSIS SERVICES 65(105)(zzh)

TECHNICAL INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATION SERVICES 65(105)(zzi)

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out of the above services if the service is catagorized in schedule 2 of export of services rule 2006, then only non taxable 

 

the abstract of schedule 2 is here

 

 

(ii) specified in sub-clauses (a), (f), (h), (i), (j), (l), [*  * *], (n), (o), [*  * *], (w), (x), (y), (z), (zb), (zc), (zi), (zj), (zn), (zo), (zq), 
(zr), (zt), (zu), (zv),(zw), (zza), (zzc), (zzd), (zzf), (zzg), (zzh), (zzi), (zzl), (zzm), (zzn), (zzo), (zzp), (zzs), (zzt), (zzv), 
 (zzw), (zzx), (zzy), (zzzd), (zzze), (zzzf), (zzzp), (zzzzg), (zzzzh), (zzzzi), (zzzzk) and (zzzzl) of clause (105) of  
section 65 of the Act, be provision of such services as are performed outside  India:
 
 
 
https://www.servicetax.gov.in/st_export_of_services_%20rules.pdf
 
 

4.2.6    Categorization of services under rule 3 of Export of Services Rules, 2005 is adopted for the purpose of the Taxation of Services (Provided from outside India and received in India) Rules, 2006.

 


https://www.servicetax.gov.in/circular/st-circular06/tru06.htm


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