Renting of Immoovable property as Bungalow

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..... Renting of Immoovable property as Bungalow
Query (Issue) Started By: - P S SATYA NARAYANA Dated:- 13-11-2012 Last Reply Date:- 15-11-2012 Service Tax
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Dear Sir, We are a Public Limited Company. We have let out one of our Bungalows to another Corporate entitiy as Guest house and charge rent along with other maintenance charges (building maintenance) and Cook s .....

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..... alary. Does this attracts Service Tax. Reply By Seetharaman K C: The Reply: Only renting of residential dwelling for use as residence is specifically included in the Negative list and hence excluded from the purview of service tax . All other rental receipts are taxable. Therefore rent receipts would be subject to service tax. Regarding maintainence services this is also a service provided and w .....

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..... ould be taxable if it is a lumpsum figure including labour and material. As you are saying that you are charging maintainence I would presume that you are billing lumpsum for material and labour.If the material for the repair is purchased by the tenant and your labour portion is billed separately by you then you need to charge service tax on the labour portion only. As far as cook's salary is conc .....

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..... erned it would be supply of manpower for any purpose and would be subject to service tax but not under reverse charge mechanism as both service receiver and service provider are corporates. I suggest to be on the safer side and to avoid litigation it would be ideal to pay service tax on the whole amount and vail CENVAT credit if the service receiver is paying service tax on services rendered by th .....

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..... em Reply By Pradeep Khatri: The Reply: Threshold limit will play an important role for determining the service tax liability. Reply By JAMES PG: The Reply: Cenvat credit eligibility for Guest House maintenance of a corporate is subject to the provisions of CCR
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