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SSI Exemption under Service Tax N/N 33/2012

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..... SSI Exemption under Service Tax N/N 33/2012
Query (Issue) Started By: - Chandan Garg Dated:- 9-7-2015 Last Reply Date:- 10-7-2015 Service Tax
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Can a service provider (Pvt Ltd Co.) claim ssi exemption of Rs Ten Lakhs in respect of services provided by it when it is already paying service tax under RCM on GTA? Reply By Rajagopalan Ranganathan: The Reply: Sir, .....

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..... SSI exemption is not available for those service tax payers who pay service tax under RCM. In respect of other service provided which are qualified as 'output services' you are eligible to avail SSI exemption up to 10 lakhs provided (i) value of provision of output services during preceding financial year did not exceed ₹ 10 lakhs limit or (ii) is not likely to exceed ₹ 10 la .....

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..... khs limit during current financial year. For availing the SSI exemption on the basis of criteria (ii) you have to file a declaration with our Range Officer. Reply By Chandan Garg: The Reply: Thanks for reply your sir. Actually we are a trading concern which pays service tax under RCM for GTA service on goods brought into our godown. Recently we have entered into a consignment contract with a man .....

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..... ufacturer who would be paying us certain amount of commission on his goods sold by us. My detailed query is as follows: 1. Whether we are providing a taxable service? 2. What is the nature of our service? (According to me it is Business Auxiliary) 3. Can we take the benefit of ssi exemption? 4. If are eligible to take the benefit of SSI exemption: (a) whether we need to amend our registration .....

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..... to add the service? (b) whether we are required to mention the amount of commission accrued to us in our Service Tax return and take benefit of SSI Exemption by quoting the N/N 33/2012 in our return? 5. If we are not eligible for SSI exemption, whether we can take the credit of tax paid under RCM and set it off against service tax charged from manufacturer? (according to me, we can not take cre .....

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..... dit because GTA services is not input service for us as it is not used for providing output service) Reply By PAWAN KUMAR: The Reply: Dear Sir, As per my view, It is business auxiliary service as you are receiving commission amount. Benefits under SSI Exemption can be availed and for the purpose you need to amend your service tax registration by adding the such service. The amount on which yo .....

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..... u are claiming exemption shall be shown in service tax return to be filed for the period April 2015 to Sept2015.
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