Foreign Airlines under Service Tax Scanner for Claiming Wrongful Abatement

Foreign Airlines under Service Tax Scanner for Claiming Wrongful Abatement Six foreign airlines have come under the lens of revenue authorities here for alleged underpayment...

No Requirement of Show Cause Notice in Service Tax / Central Excise in Certain...

No Requirement of Show Cause Notice in Service Tax / Central Excise in Certain Cases – CBEC Clarifies CBEC vide its Circular No. F.No.137/46/2015-Service Tax dated...

Home Delivery or Pick of Food is Not Liable to Service Tax

Home Delivery or Pick of Food is Not Liable to Service Tax Chandigarh Service Tax Dept. clarifies that free home delivery / pick-up of food is...

Rejection of ST-3 Returns – Who’s Responsibility to Communicate

Why ACES Should E-mail the Service Tax & Central Excise Dealers More (Rejection of ST-3 Return - Who's Responsibility to Communicate)  CA Ankit Gulgulia (Jain) If you...

Cenvat Credit on Invoices Issued at Unregistered Premise Allowed

Cenvat Credit on Invoices Issued at Unregistered Premise Allowed Hon'ble Delhi CESTAT has recently in case of M/s. Allspheres Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Vs. CCE, Meerut  upheld that...

Will this Tax Uncertainty End ? – An Indirect Tax Perspective

Will this Tax Uncertainty End ? - An Indirect Tax Perspective By CA Ankit Gulgulia (Jain) When it comes to Indirect taxation we have lot of...

Long Pending Adjudication Orders in Central Excise & Service Tax

Long Pending Adjudication Orders in Central Excise & Service Tax - CBEC Targets Simplification It has come to the notice of the Board that Hon'ble...

Service Tax on Goods Transport Agencies – Abatement Clarification on Ancillary Charges

Service Tax on Goods Transport Agencies - Treatment of Packing / unpacking, Loading / Unloading, Transhipment and Temporary Storage Charges Issue :- The All India Transport...

How to Disclose Cenvat Credit in Service Tax Returns (ST-3) – Part 1

CENVAT CREDIT DISCLOSURE IN SERVICE TAX RETURN- PRACTICAL ASPECTS: PART 1        By CA Ashish Chaudhary Tax credit in any value added taxation is the second most...

Swachh Bharat Cess– Detailed Analysis and Open Issues

Swachh Bharat Cess– Details, Valuation, Abatement, Reverse Charge, Exemptions, Cenvat Credit and Open Matters (Applicable w.e.f 15th November, 2015) CA Ankit Gulgulia (Jain) The Central Government...

Calculation of Swachh Bharat Cess–Air Travel, Insurance, Foreign Currency and Lottery Transactions

Calculation of Swachh Bharat Cess–Air Travel, Insurance, Foreign Currency and Lottery Transactions pursuant to Rules 6 of Service Tax Rules, 1994 NOTIFICATION | No. 25/2015-Service Tax...

Calculation of Swachh Bharat Cess–Air Travel, Insurance, Foreign Currency and Lottery Transactions

Calculation of Swachh Bharat Cess–Air Travel, Insurance, Foreign Currency and Lottery Transactions pursuant to Rules 6 of Service Tax Rules, 1994 NOTIFICATION | No. 25/2015-Service Tax...

Swachh Bharat Cess Applicable on Post Abated Value–CBEC

Swachh Bharat Cess Applicable on Post Abated Value (where Abatement applicable ) –CBEC NOTIFICATION No. 23 /2015-Service Tax | 12th November, 2015 G.S.R.…(E).- In exercise of the powers...

Speedy disbursal of Pending Refund claims of Service Tax–80% Provisional Payment within 5 Days...

Speedy disbursal of pending refund claims of exporters of services under rule 5 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 - Dated 10-11-2015 - Service...

CAG Audit Report on Incorrect Availment / Utilisation of Cenvat Credit under Works Contract

CAG Audit Report on Incorrect Availment / Utilisation of Cenvat Credit under Works Contract CAG In its report No. 26 of 2015 has compiled its...

CAG Identifies Several Issues on Applicability of Service Tax on Works Contract– Download Complete...

CAG Identifies Several Issues on Applicability of Service Tax on Works Contract– Download Complete Report No. 26 of 2015 CAG has identified several issues on...

Reasons for Rejections of ST-3 (Service Tax Return) after Uploading of XML File

Reasons for Rejections of ST-3 (Service Tax Return) after Uploading of XML File and Precautions one should take while Preparation of ST-3 This is to...

CM’s Panel for Service Tax Exemption, Income Tax Sops to Trainers to Boost Skill...

CM’s Panel for Service Tax Exemption, Income Tax Sops to Trainers to Boost Skill Development  A chief ministers panel has suggested measures like use of...

ICAI Pre-Budget Memoranda 2016 for Indirect Taxes–Key Points Raised on Service Tax, Cenvat, Central...

ICAI Pre-Budget Memoranda 2016 for Indirect Taxes–Key Points Raised on Service Tax, Cenvat, Central Excise, Customs & CST The Key Points Raised are as under:- Service...

No Service Tax Implication on Performence Linked Incentives

No Service Tax Implication on Performence Linked Incentives Citation :- AMR India Ltd. Versus Commissioner of Central Excise, Customs And Service Tax Hyderabad-II 2016 (1) TMI 67...

CAG Points Out Several Deficiencies in ACES Portal of Service Tax & Central Excise...

CAG Points Out Several Deficiencies in ACES Portal of Service Tax & Central Excise and Suggest Recommendations   Some of the Deficiencies Pointed out are as...

Make My Trip Under Service Tax Scanner for Alleged Evasion of Rs 75 Crore

Make My Trip Under Service Tax Scanner for Alleged Evasion of Rs 75 Crore Online travel company MakeMyTrip is under probe for alleged service tax...

Flats by Developers to Land Owners–Valuation under Service Tax

Flats Handed Over by Developers to Land Owners–Valuation under Service Tax The undersigned is directed to say that, as announced by the Finance Minister in...

Allowance of refund of Swachh Bharat Cess paid on specified services used in an...

Allowance of refund of Swachh Bharat Cess paid on specified services used in an SEZ   In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of...

Rebate of Swachh Bharat Cess paid on all services, used in providing services exported

Rebate of Swachh Bharat Cess paid on all services, used in providing services exported   In exercise of the powers conferred by rule 6A of the...

CBEC: Annual Information Return to detect Tax evasion

CBEC: Annual Information Return to detect Tax evasion For detecting tax evasion the tool used by the income tax department now will be used by...

No Service Tax on Service provided by Government to Business Entity

No Service Tax on Service provided by Government to Business Entity SECTION 66B OF THE FINANCE ACT, 1994 - CHARGE OF SERVICE TAX ON AND...

Changes in Mega Exemption Notification Service Tax–Budget 2016

Changes in Mega Exemption Notification Service Tax–Budget 2016 CA Ankit Gulgulia (Jain) | ankitgulgulia@gmail.com GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE (DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE) NOTIFICATION No.9/2016-Service Tax, New Delhi, the 1st March, 2016 G.S.R.….(E).-In exercise...

Service Tax Exemption under Budget 2016 to Softwares Recorded on Media covered under Legal...

Service Tax Exemption under Budget 2016 to Softwares Recorded on Media covered under Legal Metrology Act By CA Ankit Gulgulia (Jain) | ankitgulgulia@gmail.com In exercise of the...

Budget 2016 :- Revised Rates of Interest under Service Tax

Budget 2016 :- Revised Rates of Interest under Service Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by section 75 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32...