Conference under Sponsorship Service

[Asked by Guest]

Dear Sir,

We are a mfg paints co, Sponsorship for a conference held whether it falls under sponsorship service and are we liable to pay service tax for the same.Pls Explain, Thanks and Regards.

[Rajagopalan Ranganathan]

Sir,

Your query is not clear. Who provides sponsorship service to whom? If you provide sponsorship service to another company then you are service provider and you have to pay service tax. If your company arranges a conference for promoting your business interest then the service is by you to yourself and no service tax is payable.

[Ravi Kumar Somani]

Please give a query clearly so that it can be answered. If you are giving any money towards sponsorship for a conference then you will be liable to pay service tax under reverse charge provided you are not a proprietary concern or a partnership firm.

[Akash Deep]

Dear Sir,

Kindly post queries with enough facts. Queries with incomplete facts is nothing but waste of your time as well as of the persons who attempted to answer the query.

Regards

Akash Deep

AI Summary

Sponsorship service liability: sponsorship given to others attracts service tax; payments may attract reverse charge unless proprietary or partnership.
Whether payments for conference sponsorship attract service tax depends on who provides and who receives the service: sponsorship paid to a third party is treated as sponsorship service attracting service tax by the provider; conferences organized to promote the payer's own business are treated as services to self and not taxable; payments towards sponsorship may attract service tax under the reverse charge mechanism unless the payer is a proprietary concern or partnership firm.