Service Tax on Sub contract

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..... ABC Ltd is a Construction Company. This Company subcontract work to another company XYZ Ltd. ABC Ltd receive and pay Service Tax to the central govt. Whether it is mandatory for XYZ to collect Service Tax from ABC Ltd. - Reply By Rajagopalan Ranganathan - The Reply = Sir, The reply is yes. Whatever the service tax paid by XYZ is available as credit and can be utilized by ABC for paying s .....

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..... ervice tax by ABC. - Reply By CS RAHUL AGARWAL - The Reply = Dear Sir, But i have a doubt to it. Why would be the main contractor be liable to pay service tax ? there is no liablity at all as no service is provided by main contractor to contractee. It is the sub-contractor who is liable to pay service tax. the main contractor is only retaining certain profit to the value of contract. Also plz r .....

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..... efer judgement of Surya Construction 2014 wherein the same has been reiterated. Please clarify Sir. - Reply By CS RAHUL AGARWAL - The Reply = Dear Sir, for reference plz see this case. wrongly i wrote 2014, its 2015. 2015 (4) TMI 570 - KERALA HIGH COURT M/s. SURYA CONSTRUCTIONS Versus COMMERCIAL TAX OFFICER (WC LT) AND STATE OF KERALA - Reply By CS RAHUL AGARWAL - The Reply = I me .....

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..... an when, in case of Sale tax when there is no sale then why should be there any liablity for ervice tax ? The service is actually provided by sub-contractor to the contractee. The main contractor merely contracted and outsourced it to sub-contractor, thus no service apparently being provided by main-contractor. - Service Tax on Sub contract - Query Started By: - SANKARA NARAYANAN ME Dated:- 18-9 .....

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..... -2015 Service Tax - Got 4 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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