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Service tax under reverse charge on works contract service
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....ervice tax under reverse charge on works contract service<br>By: - Ganeshan Kalyani<br>Service Tax<br>Dated:- 10-9-2015<br><br>The works contract service is a taxable service which is defined under clause zzzza of section 65(105) of the Finance Act, 1994, 'as any service provided or to be provided to any person, by any other person in relation to the execution of a works contract, excluding works ....
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....contract in respect of roads, airports, railways, transport terminals, bridges, tunnels and dams'. Works contract means a contract wherein transfer of property in goods involved in the execution of works contract is leviable to tax as sale of goods and the service portion in the execution of works contract is liable to service tax. Thus, the consideration for works contract service shall include ....
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....both the value of material and the value of service provided during execution of the works contract. The manner for determining the value of service portion of a works contract from the total works contract is given in Rule 2A of the Service Tax (Determination of Value) Rules, 2006 as - 'the service portion involved in the execution of Original works is 40% of the total works contract and the serv....
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....ice portion involved in the execution of works contract other than original works is 70% of the total works contract. The works contract service is covered under the reverse charge notification no. 30/2012. The liability of service tax under said service shall be paid equally by the contractor/provider of service and the recipient of the service. That is fifty percent of the service tax liability....
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.... shall be paid by the contractor and the balance 50% shall be paid by the recipient of the service. In short, the service tax shall be paid at 14% (prevailing rate) on 40% or 70% of the total works contract, as the case may be, by the provider of service and the receiver of the service on equal sharing ratio i.e.50:50 ratio. In some situation, the recipient of the service supply material free of ....
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....cost to the contractor to use it in execution of works contract. In such case the contractor only carries out service of execution of works contract. It implies that the invoice raised by the provider of service shall include only the labour/service portion. In such case complication arises as to whether the value of free of cost material should be added to the total works contract for charging se....
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....rvice tax as per the provision laid down in the Service Tax (Determination of Value) Rules, 2006. On carefully reading the provision of valuation rule, the value of free of cost material shall also be added to the total works contract service to calculate service tax. The said provision is hardship on the recipient of service and provider of service. The above article is authored by Ganeshan Kaly....
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....ani and he can be reached via email on [email protected] Reply By Narhar Nimkar as = In my opinion, if entire material is supplied by the principle, then the case will not be covered under WCT. Dated: 11-9-2015 Reply By Suresh Bhutra as = When entire material is supplied by the service receiver it would amount to construction service [in the nature of job work] and not a works contract. Th....
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....us, the same would be taxable on gross value. Secondly, in the aftermath of Bhayana Builder's decision [2013],= 2013 (9) TMI 294 - CESTAT NEW DELHI (LB) by Larger Bench, Delhi CESTAT, the free supplies are not to be included in taxable value for the purpose of computation of Service Tax liability. Suresh Bhutra, Advocate Dated: 11-9-2015 Reply By KASTURI SETHI as = Pure labour cannot be c....
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....lassified under Works Contract Service. Hence no question of abatement or inclusion of value of free supply of raw material. Pure labour means only service and it will be classified under the chapter/accounting code specifically keeping in view of nature of service. Dated: 1-10-2015 Reply By Ganeshan Kalyani as = Yes Kasturi sir i agree with the views shared by you. Dated: 12-12-2015<br> Scholar....
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