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If Service Tax Paid on Output Service, connected input service exempted, Service Tax

Issue Id: - 109298
Dated: 17-10-2015
By:- Ramesh M

If Service Tax Paid on Output Service, connected input service exempted


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Dear Experts,

If we pay Service Tax on output service of Erection & Commissioning, connected service done by a sub contractor, is there any exemption for him, since we are paying tax on final output service.

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1 Dated: 17-10-2015
By:- Rajagopalan Ranganathan

Sir,

The sub-contractor is liable to pay service tax on the service provided by him. However the main contractor can take credit of service tax paid by the subcontractor and use the credit for payment of service tax by him. CBEC has clarified in Circular No.96/7/2007-ST dated 23.8.2007 that a sub-contractor is essentially a taxable service provider. The fact that services provided by such sub-contractors are used by the main service provider for completion of his work does not in any way alter the fact of provision of taxable service by the sub-contractor.

Services provided by sub-contractors are in the nature of input services. Service tax is, therefore, leviable on any taxable services provided, whether or not the services are provided by a person in his capacity as a sub-contractor and whether or not such services are used as input services. The fact that a given taxable service is intended for use as an input service by another service provider does not alter the taxability of the service provided.


2 Dated: 18-10-2015
By:- KASTURI SETHI

After 1.7.2012, the concept is crystal clear. Services provided by Sub-contractor is exempted only if the services provided by the main contractor are exempted. If main contractor is liable to Service Tax, sub-contractor is also liable to Service Tax.


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