Utilising Cenvat Credit for making service tax payment

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..... Utilising Cenvat Credit for making service tax payment
Query (Issue) Started By: - sunil mehta Dated:- 6-8-2006 Last Reply Date:- 7-8-2006 Service Tax
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Service Tax
Daer Sir, A mfg. of textiles product(twisted yarn & grey cloth) also receives commission from yarn spinner on yarn sold by them.The mfg.concern pays the ser.tax due on commission income under bus.auxilliary cat .....

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..... egory.The company also manufactures TFO machines on small scale basis for sales purpose and for captive use.It gets some m/c parts processed on job-work basis on which it pays ser.tax. Thus,they are mfg.of taxable as well as exempted goods.It wants to take cenvat credit set-off on ser.tax paid by them on 'job charges' as input services against service tax payable by them on commission income. Quer .....

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..... y:1)Whether the cen.credit set-off is legally correct? Note:The input ser.tax on job charges(on m/c) has no direct nexus with comm.income earned on sales of yarn.Only thing common is that all activities are done by one concern. Thanking you, sunil mehta Reply By Surender Gupta: The Reply: I think your case have some potentials for effective tax planning. For this purpose, detailed information is .....

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..... required. Indeed, if you take cenvat credit wrongly, you would be in trouble in future. Reply By Madhukar N Hiregange: The Reply: On the commission received they would be liable to pay the servcie tax as a service provider. On the ST paid on job work first of all it should ensure that the process does not amount to manufacture. If manufacture then there is no ST. Since the job work has nothing to .....

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..... do with the commision the same would not be an input service and therefore would not be eligible as credit.
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