Clause 104 - Special provision for exemption from service tax in certain cases relating to services provided or agreed to be provided by Goods and Services Tax Network, retrospectively. - Finance Bill, 2018

104. Special provision for exemption from service tax in certain cases relating to services provided or agreed to be provided by Goods and Services Tax Network, retrospectively. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 66B of Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), as it stood prior to its omission vide section 173 of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (12 of 2017) (hereinafter referred to as the said Chapter), no service tax shall be levied or collected in respect of taxable services provided or agreed to be provided by the Goods and Services Tax Network to the Central Government or the State Government or the Union territory Administration, during the period commencing from the 28th day of March, 2013 and ending with the 30th day of June, 2017 (both days inclusive). (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: Provided that 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, 2018 receives the assent of the President. (3) Notwithstanding the omission of the said Chapter, the provisions of the said Chapter shall apply for refund under this section retrospectively as if the said Chapter had been in force at all material times.