CHAPTER V
Service Tax
Amendment of Section 65B.
105. In the Finance Act, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the 1994 Act), save as otherwise provided, in section 65B,-
(a) clause (9) shall be omitted with effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint;
(b) after clause (23), the following clause shall be inserted, namely;-
‘(23A) “foreman for chit fund” shall have the same meaning as is assigned to the term “foreman in clause (i) of section 2 of the Chit Funds Act, 1984;
(c) clause (24) shall be omitted with effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint;
(d) after clause (26), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:-
‘(26A) “Government” means the Departments of the Central Government, a State Government and its Departments and a Union territory and its Departments, but shall not include any entity, whether created by a statute or otherwise, the accounts of which are not required to be kept in accordance with article 150 of the Constitution or the rules made thereunder;’;
(e) after clause (31), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:-
‘(31A) “lottery distributor or selling agent” means a person appointed or authorized by a State for the purposes of promoting marketing, selling or facilitating in organizing lottery of any kind, in any manner, organized by such State in accordance with the provisions of the lotteries (Regulation) Act, 1998’;
(f) in clause (40), the words “alcoholic liquors for human consumption” shall be omitted with effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint;
(g) In clause (44), for Explanation 2, the following Explanation shall be substituted, namely:-
‘Explanation 2. – For the purposes of this clause, the expression “transaction in money or actionable claim” shall not include-
(i) any activity relating to use of money or its conversion by cash or by any other mode, from one from, currency or denomination, to another from, currency or denomination for which a separate consideration is charged;
(ii) any activity carried out, for a consideration, in relation to, or for facilitation of transaction in money or actionable claim, including the activity carried out—
(a) by a lottery distributor or selling agent in relation to promotion, marketing, organizing, selling of lottery or facilitating in organizing lottery of any kind, in any other manner;
(b) by a foreman of chit fund for conducting or organising a chit in any manner.’;
(h) clause (49) shall be omitted with effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
106. In section 66B of the 1994 Act, with effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, for the words “twelve per cent.”, the words “fourteen per cent.” shall be substituted.
107. In section 66D of the 1994 Act, with effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint,-
(1) in clause (a), in sub-clause (iv), for the words “support services”, the words “any service” shall be substituted;
(2) for clause (f), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-
“(f) services by way of carrying out any process amounting to manufacture or production of goods excluding alcoholic liquor for human consumption;”;
(3) In clause (i), the following Explanation shall be inserted, namely:-
‘Explanation,- For the purposes of this clause, the expression “betting, gambling lottery” shall not include the activity specified in Explanation 2 to clause (44) of section 65B;”;
(4) clause (i) shall be omitted
Amendment of Section 65B.
108. In section 66F of the 1994 Act, in sub-section (1), the following IIIustration shall be inserted, namely:-
‘IIIustration
The services by the Reserve Bank of India, being the main service within the meaning of clause (b) of section 66D does not include any agency service provided or agreed to be provided by any bank to the Reserve Bank of India. Such agency service, being input service, used by the Reserve Bank of India amount is received by the agent bank, does not get excluded from the levy of service tax by virtue of inclusion of the main service in clause (b) of the negative list in section 66D and hence, such service is leviable to service tax.’
Amendment o Section 67.
109. 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 for 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 ticket 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.’.
Amendment of Section 73
110. In section 73 of the 1994 Act,—
(i) after sub-section (1A), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:—
“(1B) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), in a case where the amount of service tax payable has been self-assessed in the return furnished under sub-section (1) of section 70, but not paid either in full or in part, the same shall be recovered along with interest thereon in any of the modes specified in section 87, without service of notice under sub-section (1).”;
(ii) sub-section (4A) shall be omitted.
Substitution of new section for section 76.
111. For section 76 of the 1994 Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—
“76. (1) Where service tax has not been levied or paid, or has been short-levied or short-paid, or erroneously refunded, for any reason, other than the reason of fraud or collusion or wilful misstatement or suppression of facts or contravention of any of the provisions of this Chapter or of the rules made thereunder with the intent to evade payment of service tax, the person who has been served notice under sub-section (1) of section 73 shall, in addition to the service tax and interest specified in the notice, be also liable to pay a penalty not exceeding ten per cent. of the amount of such service tax:
Provided that where such service tax and interest is paid within a period of thirty days of––
(i) the date of service of notice under sub-section (1) of section 73, no penalty shall be payable;
(ii) the date of receipt of the order of the Central Excise Officer determining the amount of service tax under sub-section (2) of section 73, the penalty payable shall be twenty-five per cent. of the penalty imposed in that order, only if such reduced penalty is also paid within such period.
(2) Where the Commissioner (Appeals), the Appellate Tribunal or, the court, as the case may be, modifies the service tax determined under sub-section (2) of section 73, then, the amount of penalty payable thereon, shall also stand modified accordingly, and the benefit of reduced penalty under the proviso to sub-section (1) shall be available if such service tax, interest and reduced penalty so payable, is paid within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt of the order by which such modification is made.”.
Substitution of new section for section 78
112. For section 78 of the 1994 Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—
Penalty for failure to pay service tax for reasons of fraud, etc.
“78. (1) Where any service tax has not been levied or paid, or has been short-levied or short-paid, or erroneously refunded, by reason of fraud or collusion or wilful mis-statement or suppression of facts or contravention of any of the provisions of this Chapter or of the rules made thereunder with the intent to evade payment of service tax, the person who has been served notice under the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 73 shall, in addition to the service tax and interest specified in the notice, be also liable to pay a penalty which shall be equal to hundred per cent. of the amount of such service tax:
Provided that where such service tax and interest is paid within a period of thirty days of ––
(i) the date of service of notice under the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 73, the penalty payable shall be fifteen per cent. of such service tax;
(ii) the date of receipt of the order of the Central Excise Officer determining the amount of service tax under sub-section (2) of section 73, the penalty payable shall be twenty-five per cent. of the service tax so determined:
Provided further that the benefit of reduced penalty under the first proviso shall be available only if the amount of such reduced penalty is also paid within such period.
(2) Where the Commissioner (Appeals), the Appellate Tribunal or the court, as the case may be, modifies the service tax determined under sub-section (2) of section 73, then, the amount of penalty payable thereon, shall also stand modified accordingly, and the benefit of reduced penalty under the first proviso to sub-section (1) shall be available if such service tax, interest and reduced penalty so payable, is paid within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt of the order by which such modification is made.”.
Insertion of new section 78B
113. After section 78A of the 1994 Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—
Transitory provisions
“78B. (1) Where, in any case,––
(a) service tax has not been levied or paid or has been short-levied or short-paid or erroneously refunded and no notice has been served under sub-section (1) of section 73 or under the proviso thereto, before the date on which the Finance Bill, 2015 receives the assent of the President; or
(b) service tax has not been levied or paid or has been short-levied or short-paid or erroneously refunded and a notice has been served under sub-section (1) of section 73 or under the proviso thereto, but no order has been passed under sub-section (2) of section 73, before the date on which the Finance Bill, 2015 receives the assent of the President,
then, in respect of such cases, the provisions of section 76 or section 78, as the case may be, as amended by the Finance Act, 2015 shall be applicable.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), in respect of cases falling under the provisions of sub-section (4A) of section 73 as was in force prior to the date of coming into force of the Finance Act, 2015, where no notice under the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 73 has been served on any person or, where so served, no order has been passed under sub-section (2) of section 73, before such date, the penalty leviable shall not exceed fifty per cent. of the service tax.”.
Omission of Section 80
114. Section 80 of the 1994 Act shall be omitted.
Amendment of section 86.
115. In section 86 of the 1994 Act, in sub-section (1), ––
(a) for the words “Any assessee”, the words “Save as otherwise provided herein, an assessee” shall be substituted;
(b) the following provisos shall be inserted, namely:–
“Provided that where an order, relating to a service which is exported, has been passed under section 85 and the matter relates to grant of rebate of service tax on input services, or rebate of duty paid on inputs, used in providing such service, such order shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of section 35EE of the Central Excise Act, 1944:
Provided further that all appeals filed before the Appellate Tribunal in respect of matters covered under the first proviso, after the coming into force of the Finance Act, 2012, and pending before it up to the date on which the Finance Bill, 2015 receives the assent of the President, shall be transferred and dealt with in accordance with the provisions of section 35EE of the Central Excise Act, 1944.”.
Amendment of section 94.
116. In section 94 of the 1994 Act, in sub-section (2), for clause (aa), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—
‘(aa) determination of the amount and value of taxable service, the manner thereof, and the circumstances and conditions under which an amount shall not be a consideration, under section 67;’. |