Amends Taxation of Services (Provided from outside India and Received in India) Rules, 2006. to change the scope of India for the purpose of Import of Service and to Changes the category of import in relation to services provided by CA, CS, ICWA, and Mandap Keeper to residuary clause - 16/2010 - Service Tax

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZZETE OF INDIA , EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)] Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue New Delhi , the 27th February, 2010 Notification No. 16/2010-Service Tax G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 93 and 94 , read with section 66A of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) , the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Taxation of Services (Provided from outside India and Received in India) Rules, 2006 , namely :- 1. (1) These rules may be called the Taxation of Services (Provided from outside India and Received in India) Amendment Rules, 2010. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Taxation of Services (Provided from outside India and Received in India) Rules, 2006 . (A) in rule 2, for clause (e) , the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- '(e) "India" includes the installations, structures and vessels located in the continental shelf of India and the exclusive economic zone of India, for the purposes of prospecting or extraction or production of mineral oil and natural gas and supply thereof.'. (B) in rule 3 ,- (i) in clause (i), for the words, brackets and letter "sub-clauses (d)", the words, brackets and letters "sub-clauses (d), (m)" shall be substituted; (ii) in clause (ii), the brackets and letters "(m), (s), (t), (u)" shall be omitted. [F. No. 334/1/2010-TRU] (Prashant Kumar) Under Secretary to the Government of India Note.- The principal rules were notified vide notification no. 11/2006-Service Tax, dated the 19th April, 2006 , published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 227(E), dated the 19th April, 2006 and last amended vide notification No.22/2009-Service Tax, dated the 7th July, 2009 , published on the Gazette of India vide number G.S.R. 494 (E), dated the 7th July, 2009.