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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.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

No Service Tax on service provided in relation to Work contract executed wholly within Port


Relevant notification is reproduced here

Notification    No. 11/2011 – Service Tax      New Delhi, the 1st March, 2011

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) (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 services provided
in relation to the execution of works contract, referred to in sub-clause (zzzza) of clause (105) of
section 65 of the Finance Act, when provided wholly within the port or other port, for construction,
repair, alteration and renovation of wharves, quays, docks, stages, jetties, piers and railways from the
whole of service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the Finance Act.

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