service tax on hazardous waste disposal

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kindly let me know the category of service under which service tax is leviable on hazardous waste disposal

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put the process in brief to discuss the applicability , 

The hazardous waste is being collected at a tank in a factory and then they give the contract to a third party to dispose and destroy it.. So in what category will the service tax will be leviable?will it be under cleaning services?

 

20. CLEANING SERVICES

 

(A)   Date of Introduction: 16.06.2005 vide Notification No.15/2005-ST, dated 07.06.2005.                                                                         

(B)    Definition and scope of service:

         “Cleaning Activity” means cleaning, including specialised cleaning services such as disinfecting, exterminating or sterilising of objects or premises, of —

 

(i) commercial or industrial buildings and premises thereof; or

(ii) factory, plant or machinery, tank or reservoir of such commercial or industrial buildings and premises thereof, but does not include such services in relation to agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry or dairying;

         (Section 65(24b) of the Finance Act, 1994)

 

 

“Taxable Service” means any service provided or to be provided to any person, by any other person, in relation to cleaning activity;

 (Section 65 (105) (zzzd) of the Finance Act, 1994)

 

 (C)       Rate of Tax & Accounting Code:

 

Rate of Tax

Accounting Code

Service Tax

10% of the value of services

00440318

Education Cess

2% of the service tax payable

00440298

Secondary and Higher Education cess

1% of the service tax payable.

00440426

Other –Penalty / interest

As levied or applicable

00440319

                  (Rate of tax is effective from 24.02.2009.)

This may not be cleaning services. Probably under BAS - production or processing of goods. However the matter was remanded in the case of Bharuch Envior Infra. 2008- 12 - str- 622 based on dept circular. There is adoubt whether the same wouldbe subjected to ST.


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