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Revised Guidelines on Conducting Manual Scrutiny of Service Tax Returns to come into effect from 1st August

   20 July 2015 at 10:38

Revised Guidelines on Conducting Manual Scrutiny of Service Tax Returns to come into Operation from 1st August, 2015 The Central Board of Excise and Customs had issued detailed guidelines in 2009 to its field formations on conducting detailed manual

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Govt warns restaurants regarding service tax collection

   15 July 2015 at 10:24

Service Charges Collected by Restaurants/Hotels/Eateries Retained by the Restaurants/Hotels/Eateries and are Not �Service Tax� Imposed by the Government Some restaurants/hotels/eateries besides charging for the food and beverages are als

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Detailed manual scrutiny of Service Tax Returns

   08 July 2015 at 10:28

Please refer to the attached file for more details

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Only Air Conditioned or Air Heated Restaurants to Pay Service Tax

   10 June 2015 at 11:14

Clarification Issued in the Matter of Service Tax; Only Air-Conditioned or Air-Heated Restaurants to Pay Service Tax; Restaurants, Eating-Joints or Messes Which Do Not Have the Facility of Air-Conditioning Or Central Air-Heating in Any Part of the Es

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Regarding clarification on rate of service tax on restaurant service

   04 June 2015 at 17:23

Circular No. 184/3/2015-ST Dated the 3rd June, 2015 F. No. 334 / 5 /2015-TRU (Pt.) Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue (Tax Research Unit) Dated the 3rd June, 2015. ToChief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise (All)Ch

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New service tax rate of 14% to come into effect from 1st June,2015

   20 May 2015 at 10:07

Government of IndiaMinistry of FinanceDepartment of RevenueTax Research Unit*****Alok Shukla \Joint Secretary (TRU-I)Tel: 23092687Fax: 23092031Email: alok.shukla@nic.inNew Delhi, the 19th May, 2015D.O.F.No.334/5/2015-TRUDear Principal Chief Commissio

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Date for change of Service tax rate is yet to be notified

   19 May 2015 at 10:40

Finance Bill, 2015 Enacted Finance bill, 2015 has received the presidential assent on 14th May 2015 and has now become Finance Act, 2015. All the provisions which were due to be effective from the date the Finance Bill receives the

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Service tax rate of 14% to come into effect from date notified

   16 May 2015 at 18:14

Service tax rate of 14% shall come into effect only from a date to be notified � Finance Bill, 2015 enactedThe Hon�ble President has given assent to the Finance Bill, 2015 on Thursday, May 14, 2015. Accordingly, the Finance Bill, 2015 now

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CBEC clarifies rate of Service Tax is 12.36%

   11 April 2015 at 17:40

Circular No. 183 / 02 / 2015-STF. No. B-1 /1/2015-TRUGovernment of IndiaMinistry of FinanceDepartment of Revenue(Tax Research Unit)Room No. 153, North Block, New Delhi.Dated 10th April, 2015. To Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise(All)Ch

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No change in rate of service tax from 1st April

   02 April 2015 at 10:21

Clarification- No change in rate of Service Tax Finance bill, 2015 has proposed to increase effective rate of Service Tax from 12.36% to 14%. It is wrongly reported in some quarters that the effective date of change in rate of Service Tax is 1st Apri

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