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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.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

No service tax ,on value equal to air freight amount , to be paid by Air craft operator


No  Service tax on value equal to   ,Air freight Amount determined as decided under Customs valuation Rules( Import Rules 2007)  read with  Section 14 of the Customs  Act , 1962 ,to be paid by Air Craft Operator.

Relevant notification is reproduced here :

Notification  No. 9/2011 – 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 (hereinafter referred to as the Finance Act), 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government,
on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the taxable
services as referred to in sub-clause (zzn) of clause (105) of section 65 of the Finance Act, from
service tax leviable under section 66 of the Finance Act to the extent so much of the  value as is equal
to the amount of air freight included in the value determined under section 14 of the Customs Act,
1962 (52 of 1962) or the rules made thereunder for the purpose of charging customs duties.

2.            This notification shall come shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 2011.

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