Seeks to amend notification No. 25/2012 - Service Tax, dated the 20th June, 2012, so as to exempt the legal services provided by senior advocates to a business entity with a turnover up to rupees ten


[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF FINANCE

(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

NOTIFICATION No. 32/2016-Service Tax,

New Delhi, the 6th June, 2016

G.S.R.….(E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No.25/2012-Service Tax, dated the 20thJune, 2012, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 467 (E), dated the 20thJune, 2012, namely:-

1. In the said notification, in the first paragraph, in entry 6, for clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-

“(c) a senior advocate by way of legal services to-

(i) any person other than a business entity; or

(ii) a business entity with a turnover up to rupees ten lakh in the preceding financial year;”.

[F. No. B-1/7/2016-TRU]

(Anurag Sehgal)

Under Secretary

Note:-The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide notification No. 25/2012 - Service Tax, dated the 20th June, 2012, vide number G.S.R. 467 (E), dated the 20th June, 2012 and last amended vide notification number 26/2016 - Service Tax, dated the 20th May, 2016 vide number G.S.R. 538, dated the 20th May, 2016.

 
Notification No : 32/2016-Service Tax



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