Works Contract (Composition Scheme for Payment of Service Tax) (Amendment) Rules, 2008 - 07/2008 - Service Tax

Works Contract (Composition Scheme for Payment of Service Tax) (Amendment) Rules, 2008

Notification No. 7/2008-Service Tax

New Delhi, the 1^st March, 2008

11 Phalguna, 1929 (Saka)

G.S.R. (E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 93 and 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules to amend the Works Contract (Composition Scheme for Payment of Service Tax) Rules, 2007, namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Works Contract (Composition Scheme for Payment of Service Tax) (Amendment) Rules, 2008.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2.  In the Works Contract (Composition Scheme for Payment of Service Tax) Rules, 2007, in rule 3, in sub-rule (1), for the words "two per cent.", the words "four per cent." shall be substituted.  (Unmesh Wagh)

Under Secretary to the Government of India

[F. No. 334/1/2008-TRU]

Note:- The principal rules were notified vide notification No. 32/2007-Service Tax, dated the 22^nd May, 2007 and published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary vide number G.S.R. 378(E), dated the 22^nd May, 2007.