TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
Applicability of service tax on international in-bound roamers under telephone service – reg.
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....rnment of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue (Central Board of Excise and Customs) *** To Chief Commissioners of Central Excise (All) Chief Commissioners of Central Excise & Customs (All) Director General of Service Tax, Mumbai Director General, Central Excise Intelligence, New Delhi Commissioners of Service Tax (All) [email protected] Subject:&....
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....e location/network area of home network, and it occurs when a subscriber of one wireless service provider physically moves to the network area of another wireless service provider. "International roaming" refers to the ability of a subscriber to move to a foreign service provider's network and use its network for making and/or receiving a telephone call. 3. To enable an in-bound roamer to hook ....
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....vice of a telephone connection has been provided by the telegraph authority'.During international roaming, the visiting network provides service to a person treating him as a subscriber on a temporary basis for the period during which service is availed of by such person from the visited network. The only difference is that the payment is not directly received from the subscriber, but the same is ....
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.... number is allocated temporarily and internally, it remains a service of telephone connection. Further, the issues of entering into a contract or verification of the subscriber are not relevant to the levy of service tax. 5. Therefore, during the period of roaming, the Indian telecom service provider provides telephone service to an international in-bound roamer. This service to in-bound ....