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I did my graduation from IIT Delhi and Post Graduate Diploma in Supply Chain and Logistics from LIBA Chennai.Worked five years in the BHEL then fifteen years in Revenue Department .Currently practicing as Indirect Tax Consultant in Service Tax, Excise and Customs.

Monday, March 7, 2011

No Service Tax if insurance is taken under Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana



No  Service Tax  on Service provided by an insurer carrying on General Insurance Business to any person for providing insurance under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana.

Relevant notification is reproduced here:


Notification    No. 7/2011 – Service Tax           New Delhi, the 1stMarch, 2011

G.S.R. (E) - In exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance
Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) (hereinafter referred to as the Finance Act), the Central Government, on being
satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the taxable service
specified in sub-clause (d) of clause (105) of section 65 of the Finance Act, provided by an insurer
carrying on General Insurance Business to any person for providing insurance under the Rashtriya
Swasthya Bima Yojana from the whole of the service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the
Finance Act.

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