https://www.taxtmi.com/article/detailed?id=19 The author objects to including doctors, lawyers and chartered accountants within the service tax net, arguing medical services and professional legal and accounting assistance are essential and their taxation would raise costs and impede access. The piece recommends exempting these services or applying taxation only above a threshold to target affluent practitioners, and criticises the inconsistent treatment of similar advisory services between professions as lacking rational basis. en-us Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:52:14 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/article/detailed?id=19 The author objects to including doctors, lawyers and chartered accountants within the service tax net, arguing medical services and professional legal and accounting assistance are essential and their taxation would raise costs and impede access. The piece recommends exempting these services or applying taxation only above a threshold to target affluent practitioners, and criticises the inconsistent treatment of similar advisory services between professions as lacking rational basis. Articles Service Tax Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/article/detailed?id=19