Loading, Unloading, Packing, Storage and Warehousing of Rice also Exempted from Service Tax;

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..... Loading, Unloading, Packing, Storage and Warehousing of Rice also Exempted from Service Tax;
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Dated:- 17-2-2014

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..... of Rice also Exempted from Service Tax; Cord Blood Banks also get the Same Relief Finance Minister, Shri P. Chidambaram has proposed to exempt loading, unloading, packing, storage and warehousing o .....

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..... f rice from service tax. Stating this while presenting the Interim Budget 2014-15 in Parliament here today he said that by virtue of the definition of 'agricultural produce' in Finance Act, 2012, read .....

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..... with the Negative List, storage or warehousing of Paddy was excluded from the levy of service tax; but rice was not. As this distinction was somewhat artificial, the same has been done away with and .....

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..... now rice has also been exempted. Shri P. Chidambaram said that he has acceded to the request of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that services provided by Cord Blood Banks are also health ca .....

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..... re services and hence they should also be exempt from service tax. Notifications in respect of the above changes will be issued today itself.
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