Service Tax Payable on Reimbursment Expenses under Consulting Engineer Service

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..... Service Tax Payable on Reimbursment Expenses under Consulting Engineer Service
Query (Issue) Started By: - Rahul Patel Dated:- 1-3-2014 Last Reply Date:- 20-8-2015 Service Tax
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Dear Sir, We have paid Professional/Consultancy charges to an Engineer who is came from out of India (Foreign Engineer) in his consultancy charges invoice there is some amount of Profe .....

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..... ssional Consultancy Charges & some amount of Reimbursement of traveling expenses (traveling expenses & Professional Fees Charges he has mentioned separately in his invoice as per income tax rule Under Sec 195 we have deducted TDS on Professional fees only, Now service tax liability thereon under "Consulting Engineer Service" my query is that on which amount service tax is payable. * Total Invoi .....

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..... ce amount (including of Reimbursement of Traveling Expenses) * Total Consultancy Charges amount Please guide us in this matter & also let us know which Service Tax rules is applicable. Regards, Rahul Patel Reply By Pradeep Khatri: The Reply: Dear Rahul, The Hon'ble Delh High Court in the matter of Intercontinental Consultants and Technocrats Pvt. Ltd has held that Rule 5(1) of the Serv .....

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..... ice Tax (Determination of Value Rules, 2006), which provides for inclusion of expenditure or costs incurred by the service provider in the taxable value, as ultra vires Section 66 and 67 of the Finance Act, 1994. While the decision pertains to the period 2002-2007 the ration would also be hold good under the current Negative list regime wherein Section 66B (which has substituted Section 66) has b .....

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..... een similarly worded. Therefore, in the interim, till the matter attains finality, it would be interesting to see whether businesses would take the risk and not charging Service Tax on recovery of expenses going forward. Regards Team YAGAY & SUN (Indirect Tax Consultants) Reply By ganeshan kalyani: The Reply: If a foreign technician stays in India and provides technical service exclusively t .....

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..... o XYZ company, then who will pay the service tax.
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