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Levy of Central Excise / Service tax on Bus Body Building Activity
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....evy of Central Excise / Service tax on Bus Body Building Activity<br> Query (Issue) Started By: - Narasimha Murthy Dated:- 20-6-2015 Last Reply Date:- 21-6-2015 Central Excise<br>Got 2 Replies<br>Central Excise<br>Whether Central Excise / Service tax is applicable on Bus Body Building Activity - Kindly note that bus bodies are constructed on chassis supplied by a. OEM's to whom the fully buil....
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....t vehicles will be delivered back and OEMs would be final sellers of the vehicles. b. private bus fleet owners who purchase the Chassis in their own name and deliver it to the assessee for body construction. Reply By B. Naga Rami Reddy: The Reply: In case of OEM supplies, job work notification 214/1986 applies and excise duty will be discharged by the OEMs on returning the fully built vehicles ....
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....back to their factory. However, in case of private bus fleet owners , excise duty is exempted in my personal view under Notification No. 12/2012-CE(Sl.No. 334) if the same is mounted on duty paid chassis as per condition No. 40 of the Notification.. Coming to Service Tax applicability, the same is also not payable as the process of building a body on cassis amounts to manufacture as per chapter n....
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....ote 5 of Chapter 87 of CETA.When the activity amounts to manufacture, the service falls under list of negative service under Section 66D(f) of the Finance Act,1994. Reply By Mahir S: The Reply: Sir, In both the above cases, Central Excise duty shall be applicable under chapter heading 87 of the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985.<br> Discussion Forum - Knowledge Sharing ....