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Query (Issue) Started By: - S.C. WADHWA Dated:- 2-3-2015 Last Reply Date:- 3-3-2015 Service Tax
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Service Tax
Dear Experts, We are paying service tax on GTA service on GR basis. But transporter in his invoice also charging unloading exp and some times haulting charges. Please confirm whether we should also have to pay service tax on unloading and .....

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..... haulting exp. Please give your expert opinion. Regards, WADHWA Reply By Rajagopalan Ranganathan: The Reply: Sir, Clause 109 of finance Bill amends Section 67 of F.A. 1994 to define consideration as follows: - In section 67 of the 1994 Act, in the Explanation, for clause (a), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- '(a) "consideration" includes- (i) any amount that is payable f .....

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..... or the taxable services provided or to be provided; (ii) any reimbursable expenditure or cost incurred by the service provider and charged, in the course of providing or agreeing to provide a taxable service, except in such circumstances, and subject to such conditions, as may be prescribed; (iii) any amount retained by the lottery distributor or selling agent from gross sale amount of lottery t .....

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..... icket in addition to the fee or commission, if any, or, as the case may be, the discount received, that is to say, the difference in the face value of lottery ticket and the price at which the distributor or selling agent gets such ticket.'. This amendment will come into force on enactment of of Finance Bill 2015. In respect of past period present provision of Section 67 of F.A. 1994 will prevai .....

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..... l which states that "consideration" includes any amount that is payable for the taxable services provided or to be provided. The amendment proposed in the Finance Bill 2015 gives more clarity to the definition of 'Consideration.'. Therefore in my opinion you have to service tax on both unloading and hauling charges wherever they are charged by GTA.
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