TRADE NOTICE NO. 02/2010-ST

Dated Shillong, The 9th MARCH’2010

Trade and all concerned are informed that In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Service Tax Rules, 1994, namely :-  

1. Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be called the Service Tax (Amendment) Rules, 2010.

     (2) They shall come into force on the 1^st day of April, 2010.

2. In the Service Tax Rules 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 6, in sub-rule (2), for the proviso, the following proviso, shall be substituted, namely:-

“Provided that where an assessee has paid a total service tax of rupees ten lakh or more including the amount paid by utilisation of CENVAT credit, in the preceding financial year, he shall deposit the service tax liable to be paid by him electronically, through internet banking.”

3. In the said rules, in rule 7, after sub-rule (2), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-

 “Provided that where an assessee has paid a total service tax of rupees ten lakh or more including the amount paid by utilisation of CENVAT credit, in the preceding financial year, he shall file the return electronically”.

Authority : CBEC’s Notification No. 01/2010- Service Tax Dated 19.02.2010.

Disclaimer : Though care has been taken to reproduce the text in its Original form, We cannot entirely rule out some inadvertent omission/mistake which might have crept in. For the purpose of authenticity, CBEC’s Notification No. 01/2010 – Service Tax Dated 19.02.2010 may be referred to.

                                                                                                                                 (S.P. Chakraborty)

                                                                                                                         Joint Commissioner(S.T.)

Note.-  The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (i), dated the 28^th June, 1994 vide notification No. 2/94-Service Tax, dated the 28th June, 1994, [G.S.R. 546(E), dated the 28th June, 1994] and were last amended by notification No. 17/2006-Service Tax, dated 25^th April, 2006, [G.S.R. 247 (E), dated the 25^th April, 2006, and vide notification No. 10/2009 - Service Tax, dated the 17^th March  2009, [G.S.R. 171 (E), dated the 17^th March, 2009].