Liability of service tax and interest

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..... My client is contactor he worked for housing board society for construction of their housing projects (LIG, MIG houses).He registered him self under construction service since 2004. but does not take registration under Construction of Residential complex Service, therefore he does not pay Tax on time and also fail to submit returns in time. In year 2007 he take registration under CCS (i.e. After t .....

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..... wo years from 16-06-2005 applicable of CCS, in 2007) and he has paid full amount of ST with interest thereon and filed all such returns up to date. Now he received show cause notice cum demand notice on 13-06-2008 in notice the department has asked to him to pay full amount of ST+Interest, penalties u/s 76 , 77 78 . As we had paid full tax + interest before issuance of show cause notice. In my .....

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..... view my client is not liable for payment of ST+interest, I want your views and some case laws for preparation of reply to departments show cause notice. - Reply By balasubramanian n - The Reply = 1.Penalty under Section 78 is leviable even in cases where the TAX and interest were paid before issue of SCN if any one of the ingedients spelt out in Section 78 was present with intent to evase t .....

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..... ax. This depends on the wordings of the SCM. 2.Penalty under Section 76 and 78 are mutually exclusive ; This has been the decision of the Tribunal in number of cases. Now this has been made part of the ACT. 3.You can ask for waiver of penalties if reasonable cause can be shown to the satifaction of the Adjudicating authority as provided in Section 80 of the Finance Act 1994 - Liability of .....

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..... service tax and interest - Query Started By: - Bhavesh Rathor Dated:- 21-8-2008 Service Tax - Got 1 Reply - Service Tax - Discussion Forum - Knowledge Sharing, reply post by an expert, personal opinion Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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