ALLOWABILITY OF SERVICE TAX PAID

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..... ALLOWABILITY OF SERVICE TAX PAID
Query (Issue) Started By: - S.C. WADHWA Dated:- 19-6-2012 Last Reply Date:- 20-7-2012 Service Tax
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Service Tax
An individual has given his property on rent from 01/07/06 @ Rs. Twenty lacs per month inclusive of all taxes at present and in future, if any, as per agreement. After levy of service tax w.e.f. 01/07/07, we raised bill on tenant f .....

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..... or Rs. 2000000/- plus services tax leviable at that time. But he refused to give service tax by quoting the clause mentioned in the agreement i.e. Rent is inclusive of all taxes leviable at present as well as in future if any. We paid service tax for the period from 01/07/07 to 31/03/08 and claimed the same in our Income tax return as under: 1. Rent inclusive of all taxes recd. 2000000X9 1800000 .....

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..... 0 2. Less; Property tax paid 100000 3. Service Tax @ 12.36% Paid 1969064 4. Actual rental income shown in return 16030936 From 01/04/08, no service tax was paid in the light of first judgement on service tax received from Delhi high court and we filed our income tax return for the year 01/04/08 to 31/03/09 by taking income of Rs. 2000000X12 (rs. 24000000/-). Now our query is : As per finance .....

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..... budget 2012-13, the govt. has made amendment in Section 80 of the Finance Act, that no penalty to be imposed if service tax payable upto 06/03/12 alongwith interest to be paid within six months from the date of assent from the president on the finance bill. We paid service tax for the year 2008-09 on 24/03/12 and now we want to get benefit in our I.T. return for the A.Y. 2012-13. But our consul .....

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..... tant denied that being an individual he could not get benefit of service tax paid now. Please give your expert opinion on the matter by quoting any notification or judgement etc. Reply By vasudevan unnikrishnan: The Reply: Incometax returns can be revised within the time limit prescribed ,if the assessments are not yet finalised by the dept. Hence you can file the revised IT return,claimnig th .....

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..... e service tax paid.
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