Section 101 - Special provision for exemption in certain cases relating to construction of canal, dam, etc. - Finance Act, 1994

1 [ Special provision for exemption in certain cases relating to construction of canal, dam, etc. 101. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 66B, no service tax shall be levied or collected during the period commencing from the 1st day of July, 2012 and ending with the 29th day of January, 2014 (both days inclusive) in respect of taxable services provided to an authority or a board or any other body (i) set up by an Act of Parliament or a State Legislature; or (ii) established by the Government, with ninety per cent. or more participation by way of equity or control, to carry out any function entrusted to a municipality under article 243W of the Constitution, by way of construction, erection, commissioning, installation, completion, fitting out, repair, maintenance, renovation or alteration of canal, dam or other irrigation works. (2) Refund shall be made of all such service tax which has been collected but which would not have been so collected had sub-section (1) been in force at all material times. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Chapter, an application for the claim of refund of service tax shall be made within a period of six months from the date on which the Finance Bill, 2016 receives the assent of the President.] --------------------------- Notes:- 1. Inserted vide THE FINANCE ACT, 2016 w.e.f. May 14, 2016.