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Service tax on removal of Garbage to Tretment plant

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..... Work allotted by Municipal corporation is to transport the Solid waste and garbage from collection points to the treatment plant.Lorries,JCB etc are to be provided.The remuneration is paid as rent on per day for lorries and per hour for JCBs.The entire responsibility to provide vehicles from 6 am to 6pm,driver,fuel and safe transportation with fully covered sheets etc is on the contractor. Whether .....

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..... it can be construed as Supply of Tangible Goods and subjected to service tax.Period is both pre and post negative list era. Thanks in advance for expert views. unnikrishnan.v. - Reply By KASTURI SETHI - The Reply = Sh.Vasudevan Unnikrishnan Ji, Sir, My views for the period after 1.7.12 are as under:- The activity of 'solid waste management' is exempted from ST vide Notificati .....

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..... on No.25/12-ST dated 20.6.12 (Serial No.25 (a)]. Further Board vide Circular No.334/15/2014-TRU dated 10.7.14 (Para no.2.2.2 (ii) has clarified as under:- (ii) Services ordinarily provided by a Municipality : For greater clarity, the exemption in respect of services provided to Government or local authority or governmental authority [in entry at Sl. No. 25], has been made more spe .....

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..... cific. Services by way of water supply, public health, sanitation conservancy, solid waste management or slum improvement and up-gradation will continue to remain exempted but the exemption would not be extendable to other services such as consultancy, designing, etc., not directly connected with these specified services. The activity of solid waste management cannot be carried out with o .....

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..... ut lorries and JCB machines. Thus the transportation of solid waste and garbage by these vehicles is directly linked to the activity of solid waste management. Hence remuneration received on account of above activities is exempted from Service Tax. For the period prior to 1.7.12, the consideration received as rent on per day for lorries and per hour for JCBs etc . was taxable under the categ .....

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..... ory of Right to Use of Tangible Goods Services . These are my interpretations of Service Tax Notification and circular. You may also invite the views of other experts to be doubly sure before final decision on the issue. - Service tax on removal of Garbage to Tretment plant - Query Started By: - vasudevan unnikrishnan Dated:- 24-8-2016 Service Tax - Got 1 Reply - Service Tax - Discuss .....

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