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Dear sir, Mr. X is a land owner of 10Acres. X Promoted the project being a laying consiting of 100 Plots and got Layout approval from necessary authorities. M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. entered into an agreement with Mr. X for Developing, Marketing & Selling of above Layout [Plots]. The agreement says that M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is authorized to deal the customer on end-to-end basis and can collect full consideration from Plot Buyer. All Marketing, Advt., etc., should be born by M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. It is the responsibility of M/s.ABC Pvt. Ltd. to complete the development of layout such as Laying Blacktop Roads, Sewage, Drainage, Electricity, Compound wall, Water Tank etc. to ensure the timely completion of plot [piece of land] development for customer. On registration, the sale deed says that Land belongs to Mr.X, Developing by M/s.ABC Pvt. Ltd., and will register the document in favour of Customer / Plot Buyer. X have no responsibility of development activities proposed in Sale deed. On registration of Plot, Mr.X will get his part of sale consideration for land from M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. From the above, It is clear that, the land development agreement is between ABC Pvt. Ltd. and the Plot Buyer. Mr.X doesn't accept to be a part of development activity. He is getting only consideration for Land as per the agreement entered with M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. It is M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. which collects full sale consideration [for both Land Cost & Development Cost] from the Plot Buyer and pay Mr.X only Land Cost as agreed before. So, Mr.X is in development agreement neither with M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. nor with the Plot Buyer. The sale deed is also saying that Land owner [Mr.X] is getting consideration for Land amount only. It further says that, M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is getting consideration only for development activities. In case of Above, Please guide me by answering the following: 1. Whether M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. liabile to Pay Service Tax? 2. If, answer to Question No. 1 is Yes, under which section he is liabile to pay service tax and on What is the Rate of Tax? 3. As M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is entering Development agreement with individual plot buyers through Sale Deed, is Service Tax Exempted? Please mention case laws / notifications / circulars (available if any) with your answer. Thanks in Advance!!

Read more at: /forum/service-tax-on-land-development-161804.asp#.UMjVe6xBr9UDear sir, Mr. X is a land owner of 10Acres. X Promoted the project being a laying consiting of 100 Plots and got Layout approval from necessary authorities. M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. entered into an agreement with Mr. X for Developing, Marketing & Selling of above Layout [Plots]. The agreement says that M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is authorized to deal the customer on end-to-end basis and can collect full consideration from Plot Buyer. All Marketing, Advt., etc., should be born by M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. It is the responsibility of M/s.ABC Pvt. Ltd. to complete the development of layout such as Laying Blacktop Roads, Sewage, Drainage, Electricity, Compound wall, Water Tank etc. to ensure the timely completion of plot [piece of land] development for customer. On registration, the sale deed says that Land belongs to Mr.X, Developing by M/s.ABC Pvt. Ltd., and will register the document in favour of Customer / Plot Buyer. X have no responsibility of development activities proposed in Sale deed. On registration of Plot, Mr.X will get his part of sale consideration for land from M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. From the above, It is clear that, the land development agreement is between ABC Pvt. Ltd. and the Plot Buyer. Mr.X doesn't accept to be a part of development activity. He is getting only consideration for Land as per the agreement entered with M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. It is M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. which collects full sale consideration [for both Land Cost & Development Cost] from the Plot Buyer and pay Mr.X only Land Cost as agreed before. So, Mr.X is in development agreement neither with M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. nor with the Plot Buyer. The sale deed is also saying that Land owner [Mr.X] is getting consideration for Land amount only. It further says that, M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is getting consideration only for development activities. In case of Above, Please guide me by answering the following: 1. Whether M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. liabile to Pay Service Tax? 2. If, answer to Question No. 1 is Yes, under which section he is liabile to pay service tax and on What is the Rate of Tax? 3. As M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is entering Development agreement with individual plot buyers through Sale Deed, is Service Tax Exempted? Please mention case laws / notifications / circulars (available if any) with your answer. Thanks in Advance!!
Dear sir, Mr. X is a land owner of 10Acres. X Promoted the project being a laying consiting of 100 Plots and got Layout approval from necessary authorities. M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. entered into an agreement with Mr. X for Developing, Marketing & Selling of above Layout [Plots]. The agreement says that M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is authorized to deal the customer on end-to-end basis and can collect full consideration from Plot Buyer. All Marketing, Advt., etc., should be born by M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. It is the responsibility of M/s.ABC Pvt. Ltd. to complete the development of layout such as Laying Blacktop Roads, Sewage, Drainage, Electricity, Compound wall, Water Tank etc. to ensure the timely completion of plot [piece of land] development for customer. On registration, the sale deed says that Land belongs to Mr.X, Developing by M/s.ABC Pvt. Ltd., and will register the document in favour of Customer / Plot Buyer. X have no responsibility of development activities proposed in Sale deed. On registration of Plot, Mr.X will get his part of sale consideration for land from M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. From the above, It is clear that, the land development agreement is between ABC Pvt. Ltd. and the Plot Buyer. Mr.X doesn't accept to be a part of development activity. He is getting only consideration for Land as per the agreement entered with M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. It is M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. which collects full sale consideration [for both Land Cost & Development Cost] from the Plot Buyer and pay Mr.X only Land Cost as agreed before. So, Mr.X is in development agreement neither with M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. nor with the Plot Buyer. The sale deed is also saying that Land owner [Mr.X] is getting consideration for Land amount only. It further says that, M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is getting consideration only for development activities. In case of Above, Please guide me by answering the following: 1. Whether M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. liabile to Pay Service Tax? 2. If, answer to Question No. 1 is Yes, under which section he is liabile to pay service tax and on What is the Rate of Tax? 3. As M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is entering Development agreement with individual plot buyers through Sale Deed, is Service Tax Exempted? Please mention case laws / notifications / circulars (available if any) with your answer. Thanks in Advance!!

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Dear sir, Mr. X is a land owner of 10Acres. X Promoted the project being a laying consiting of 100 Plots and got Layout approval from necessary authorities. M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. entered into an agreement with Mr. X for Developing, Marketing & Selling of above Layout [Plots]. The agreement says that M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is authorized to deal the customer on end-to-end basis and can collect full consideration from Plot Buyer. All Marketing, Advt., etc., should be born by M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. It is the responsibility of M/s.ABC Pvt. Ltd. to complete the development of layout such as Laying Blacktop Roads, Sewage, Drainage, Electricity, Compound wall, Water Tank etc. to ensure the timely completion of plot [piece of land] development for customer. On registration, the sale deed says that Land belongs to Mr.X, Developing by M/s.ABC Pvt. Ltd., and will register the document in favour of Customer / Plot Buyer. X have no responsibility of development activities proposed in Sale deed. On registration of Plot, Mr.X will get his part of sale consideration for land from M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. From the above, It is clear that, the land development agreement is between ABC Pvt. Ltd. and the Plot Buyer. Mr.X doesn't accept to be a part of development activity. He is getting only consideration for Land as per the agreement entered with M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. It is M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. which collects full sale consideration [for both Land Cost & Development Cost] from the Plot Buyer and pay Mr.X only Land Cost as agreed before. So, Mr.X is in development agreement neither with M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. nor with the Plot Buyer. The sale deed is also saying that Land owner [Mr.X] is getting consideration for Land amount only. It further says that, M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is getting consideration only for development activities. In case of Above, Please guide me by answering the following: 1. Whether M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. liabile to Pay Service Tax? 2. If, answer to Question No. 1 is Yes, under which section he is liabile to pay service tax and on What is the Rate of Tax? 3. As M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is entering Development agreement with individual plot buyers through Sale Deed, is Service Tax Exempted? Please mention case laws / notifications / circulars (available if any) with your answer. Thanks in Advance!!

Read more at: /forum/service-tax-on-land-development-161804.asp#.UMjVe6xBr9U
Dear sir, Mr. X is a land owner of 10Acres. X Promoted the project being a laying consiting of 100 Plots and got Layout approval from necessary authorities. M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. entered into an agreement with Mr. X for Developing, Marketing & Selling of above Layout [Plots]. The agreement says that M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is authorized to deal the customer on end-to-end basis and can collect full consideration from Plot Buyer. All Marketing, Advt., etc., should be born by M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. It is the responsibility of M/s.ABC Pvt. Ltd. to complete the development of layout such as Laying Blacktop Roads, Sewage, Drainage, Electricity, Compound wall, Water Tank etc. to ensure the timely completion of plot [piece of land] development for customer. On registration, the sale deed says that Land belongs to Mr.X, Developing by M/s.ABC Pvt. Ltd., and will register the document in favour of Customer / Plot Buyer. X have no responsibility of development activities proposed in Sale deed. On registration of Plot, Mr.X will get his part of sale consideration for land from M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. From the above, It is clear that, the land development agreement is between ABC Pvt. Ltd. and the Plot Buyer. Mr.X doesn't accept to be a part of development activity. He is getting only consideration for Land as per the agreement entered with M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. It is M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. which collects full sale consideration [for both Land Cost & Development Cost] from the Plot Buyer and pay Mr.X only Land Cost as agreed before. So, Mr.X is in development agreement neither with M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. nor with the Plot Buyer. The sale deed is also saying that Land owner [Mr.X] is getting consideration for Land amount only. It further says that, M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is getting consideration only for development activities. In case of Above, Please guide me by answering the following: 1. Whether M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. liabile to Pay Service Tax? 2. If, answer to Question No. 1 is Yes, under which section he is liabile to pay service tax and on What is the Rate of Tax? 3. As M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is entering Development agreement with individual plot buyers through Sale Deed, is Service Tax Exempted? Please mention case laws / notifications / circulars (available if any) with your answer. Thanks in Advance!!

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Dear sir,

Mr. X is a land owner of 5 Acres. X Promoted the project being a laying consiting of 100 Plots and got Layout approval from necessary authorities. M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. entered into an agreement with Mr. X for Developing, Marketing & Selling of above Layout [Plots]. The agreement says that M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is authorized to deal the customer on end-to-end basis and can collect full consideration from Plot Buyer. All Marketing, Advt., etc., should be born by M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. It is the responsibility of M/s.ABC Pvt. Ltd. to complete the development of layout such as Laying Blacktop Roads, Sewage, Drainage, Electricity, Compound wall, Water Tank etc. to ensure the timely completion of plot [piece of land] development for customer. On registration, the sale deed says that Land belongs to Mr.X, Developing by M/s.ABC Pvt. Ltd., and will register the document in favour of Customer / Plot Buyer. X have no responsibility of development activities proposed in Sale deed. On registration of Plot, Mr.X will get his part of sale consideration for land from M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. From the above, It is clear that, the land development agreement is between ABC Pvt. Ltd. and the Plot Buyer. Mr.X doesn't accept to be a part of development activity. He is getting only consideration for Land as per the agreement entered with M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. It is M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. which collects full sale consideration [for both Land Cost & Development Cost] from the Plot Buyer and pay Mr.X only Land Cost as agreed before. So, Mr.X is in development agreement neither with M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. nor with the Plot Buyer. The sale deed is also saying that Land owner [Mr.X] is getting consideration for Land amount only. It further says that, M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is getting consideration only for development activities. In case of Above, Please guide me by answering the following:

1. Whether M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. has to collect service tax form Buyer?

2. If M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. is collecting 25% of service tax means at the rate of 3.09 % of Total sale cosideration with Buyer of the plot, is it ok?

3. What are service tax % for M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. , if Sale deed cosideration is for land only, land + metirial only and land + merial + dveloper fee?

4. In Gujarat, there is no Building use permission is given out side the Authority area scheme, so M/s. ABC Pvt. Ltd. can consider it as full developed land and exempt his buyer to pay serive tax as considering the developed property?

Please mention case laws / notifications / circulars (available if any) with your answer. Thanks in Advance!!

Replies (1)

SIr,

1. The service has to be collected from buyer

2.25% service tax means 25% of 12.36%=3.09 is ok where the consideration is land cost plus construction cost and other costs.

3. If sale consideration is for land only and there is no service provided hence no service tax.Otherwise 3.09%.

 Further the abatement is 33% where the land cost is excluded in computation of service tax.

4.If gujarat Govt has notfied any specified area exempting service tax provisions, it may be referred otherwise service tax provisons apply other than the negative list items specified.

 

Regards,

Viswanathan

MBA(Finance)&CA(Final)

 


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