SERVICE TAX RETROSPECTIVE EXEMPTIONS ?? MUST READ :BUDGET 2012

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1) Vide Notification No.24/2009-ST dated 27.07.2009 service tax on repair of roads is already exempted. Vide section 97 of the Finance Act, 1994, the exemption granted to repair of roads is being extended for the earlier period from 16.06.2005 to 26.07.2009.

2) Management, maintenance or repair service undertaken in relation to non-commercial Government buildings is being exempted from service tax vide section 98, with effect from 16.06.2005 till the new charging section, namely section 66B, comes into force.

3) In the last budget, sub-rule 6A was inserted under rule 6 of the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 to protect the service providers located in the Domestic Tariff Area from the reversal of Cenvat credit, when they supply taxable services under exemption, to the authorized operations of SEZ. The application of sub-rule 6A is being given retrospective effect from 10.02.2006 [clause 144 of the Finance Bill, 2012].

4) Service provided by an association of dyeing units in relation to common effluent treatment plants was exempted from service tax vide Notification No.42/2011-ST dated 25.07.2011. The scope of the exemption is being expanded and the amended notification is being given retrospective effect from 16.06.2005[clause 145 of the Finance Bill, 2012].

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