Housekeeping Services and supply of material therein

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..... Dear Expert, We are housekeeping service provider. We provide housekeeping services under a contract to various banks, insurance companies etc. As a part of the service, we provide housekeeping material as per the client's requirement. We bill separately for the housekeeping material for some of the clients where we provide some additional material like room freshners etc which is not a part of t .....

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..... he contract. While we bill, we charge service tax on the same. The question is - in what category of service tax this bill will fall? We have a confusion whether it is BAS or OCS? We would be obliged to get clarity on the same. Regards. - Reply By Rama Krishana - The Reply = Generally housekeeping services are in the nature of maintenance service and therefore to be classified as Repair and Main .....

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..... tenance (MMR) service. Regarding supply of some material, if you are purchasing and selling in the capacity of dealer, independent to service, the same should not be included in the gross value of taxable service. But, factually, to what extent are you able to prove, it is a question of fact. - Reply By Ganeshan Kalyani - The Reply = The supply of cleaning material in incidental to housekeeping .....

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..... service and therefore should form part of consideration and accordingly service tax shall be levied on entire amount. - Housekeeping Services and supply of material therein - Query Started By: - Jignesh Shah Dated:- 4-1-2011 Service Tax - Got 2 Replies - Service Tax - Discussion Forum - Knowledge Sharing, reply post by an expert, personal opinion Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - tax .....

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..... management - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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