Credit on Advocate services rendered for Closed Office premises in dispute

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..... Dear Sir, Shall we take service tax credit on Reverse charge paid by us on Advocate services who is rendering Arbitration case against vacate of Office premises 3-4 years back. At that time we had sperate office and factory premises and had seperate Service Tax registrations. But due to some reasons we have vacated the office and surrendered the registration and shifted to factory itself. We ha .....

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..... ve all the registration, incl. Service Tax, Excise other regn. My question is whether we can take credit on these services currently. - Reply By Madhukar N Hiregange - The Reply = If you area manufacturer then eligibility would be strong. If service provider then if used in providing output service would have to be established. Maybe difficult. - Reply By Pradeep Khatri - The Reply = Dear I .....

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..... yer, Though there is no time limit prescribed in the Finance Act, 1994 to avail the CENVAT credit on Input services, but there are certain judgments which enumerate that CENVAT credit should be availed within reasonable time and in some judgments it is determined that 1 to 1.5 years are the reasonable time to avail such credit. In addition to the above, CENVAT credit should be availed unde .....

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..... r the provisions of CENVAT credit Rules, 2004 as amended from time to time. If you can prove the nexus with your manufacturing activities and with output services, then, you may avail the same, otherwise not. Regards Team YAGAY SUN (Management and Indirect Tax Consultants) - Credit on Advocate services rendered for Closed Office premises in dispute - Query Started By: - .....

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..... V Radhakrishnan Iyer Dated:- 29-5-2013 Service Tax - Got 2 Replies - 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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