service tax on publishing e-journals

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..... service tax on publishing e-journals
Query (Issue) Started By: - Sanjeev Sharma Dated:- 11-4-2010 Last Reply Date:- 26-2-2016 Service Tax
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Service Tax
An Indian Company publishes e journals. It collect monthly or yearly subscrption from the clients. In some cases, passwords are mailed to clients and then they access the journals online from the web site of the publisher .....

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..... company. In other cases, e journals are e mailed to the clients. In both situation, what is the liability or applicablity of service tax on the publisher company?? Reply By Rama Krishana: The Reply: IT is clear from the query, that activity is in the nature of providing information online or allowing the facility of access or retrieval through online system (internet or computer system). Therefore .....

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..... , sending ejornals and allowing access through passwords, would be subject to service tax. Reply By Sanjeev Sharma: The Reply: Thanks. What would the status where e journals are e mailed to the clients ?? Reply By Rama Krishana: The Reply: Sending journals through email, can not be a service of providing database access and retrial system. By receiving, the recipient can access your database or .....

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..... information through computer networking? Not liable to service tax. Reply By Faiz Siddiqui: The Reply: I am an individual running online Journal and adopted open access model. We charge fee from authors to publish their articles in our online journals. Is the fees charged from authors come under any tax ?
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