payment under protest, Service Tax

[Vigneshwari M]

Hi,

Can we avail cenvat credit of service tax paid under protest ?

Is there any restrictions for doing the same?

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[Rajagopalan Ranganathan]

Madam,

If the output service provider charges service tax on the value of service provided and you have honoured the invoice then you can avail the input service tax credit. It does not matter whether the service tax is paid under protest or without protest.