Service tax on Joint Venture activity - development of residential plots

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..... Service tax on Joint Venture activity - development of residential plots
Query (Issue) Started By: - M. R. Nadkarni Dated:- 15-4-2010 Last Reply Date:- 16-4-2010 Service Tax
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..... ice Tax
A developer enters into joint venture with the owner of the land to develop the plots for residential purpose and to sell them to the purchasers. Developer will bear entire cost for develop .....

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..... ing the plots. The developer in turn will be asigned 60% of the plots, sale proceeds of which will be given to the developer by the owner of the land. As there is no construction activity, there seems .....

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..... no service tax chargeable by the developer. Is there any other tax issue? Looking forward for early advice. Regards. Reply By Surender Gupta: The Reply: It is peculiar situation. On the one side you .....

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..... are saying that they enter into Joint venture on the other side you are saying that developer is paying 60% of the sale proceeds to the land owners. Once it is joint venture, profit is distributed am .....

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..... ong the partners (each parties of joint venture are partners). But, if one party is paying as sale proceed to another, how can it be a joint venture. Therefore, in my view, this issue will take some t .....

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..... ime to settle. Before deciding the issue of service tax, we have to decide the issue of nature of transaction carefully. It would have long impacts.
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