Service tax - Wikipedia Service tax This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article needs more links to other articles to help integrate it into the encyclopedia. Please help improve this article by adding links that are relevant to the context within the existing text. ( March 2016 ) This article needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( October 2015 ) Service tax was a tax levied by Central Government of India on services provided or agreed to be provided excluding services covered under negative list and considering the Place of Provision of Services Rules, 2012 and collected as per Point of Taxation Rules, 2011 from the person liable to pay service tax. Person liable to pay service tax is governed by Service Tax Rules, 1994 he may be service provider or service receiver or any other person made so liable. It is an indirect tax wherein the service provider collects the tax on services from service receiver and pays the same to government of India. Few services are presently exempt in public interest via Mega Exemption Notification 25 / 2012 - ST as amended up to date and few services are charged service tax at abated rate as per Notification No. 26 / 2012 - ST as amended up to date. Presently from 1 June 2016, service tax rate has been increased to consolidated rate at 14 % + 0.5 % + 0.5 % = 15 % of value of services provided or to be provided. The service tax rate now is consolidated rate as education cess and secondary higher education cess are subsumed with 2 % of `` Swach Bharat Cess ( 0.50 % ) '' has been notified by the Government. From 15 November 2015, the effective rate of service tax plus Swachh Bharat Cess, post introduction of Swachh Bharat Cess, was 14.5 %. Currently, Swachh Bharat Cess and Krishi Kalyan Cess would also be levied on all services on which Service Tax is being levied and therefore, the Service Tax ( including Swachh Bharat Cess and Krishi Kalyan Cess ) applicable from 1 June 2016 has become 15 %. Contents 1 History of Service Tax 2 Rates 3 Small Scale Exemption 4 Declared Services 5 Negative list 6 Registration of Service Tax 7 Service Tax Invoices 8 References 9 External links History of service tax Dr. Raja Chelliah Committee on tax reforms recommended the introduction of service tax. Service tax had been first levied at a rate of five per cent flat from 1 July 1994 till 13 May 2003, at the rate of eight percent flat w.e.f 1 plus an education cess of 2 % thereon w.e.f 10 September 2004 on the services provided by service providers. The rate of service tax was increased to 12 % by Finance Act, 2006 w.e.f 18.4. 2006. Finance Act, 2007 has imposed a new secondary and higher education cess of one percent on the service tax w.e.f 11.5. 2007, increasing the total education cess to three percent and a total levy of 12.36 percent. The revenue from the service tax to the Government of India have shown a steady rise since its inception in 1994. The tax collections have grown substantially since 1994 -- 95 i.e. from ₹ 410 crore ( US $64 million ) in 1994 -- 95 to ₹ 132,518 crore ( US $21 billion ) in 2012 -- 13. The total number of Taxable services also increased from 3 in 1994 to 119 in 2012. However, from 1 July 2012 the concept of taxation on services was changed from a ' Selected service approach ' to a ' Negative List regime '. This changed the taxation system of services from tax on some Selected services to tax being levied on the every service other than services mentioned in Negative list. Under the Service tax from the year of original levying year of 1994 are constantly growing. The collections are shown as in the following table : Financial Year Revenue Rupees ( in crores ) Number of services Number of Assessees 1993 -- 1994 254 2568 1994 -- 1995 407 3943 1995 -- 1996 862 6 4866 1996 -- 1997 1059 6 13982 1997 -- 1998 1586 18 45991 1998 -- 1999 1957 26 107479 1999 -- 2000 2128 26 115495 2000 -- 2001 2613 26 122326 2001 -- 2002 3302 41 187577 2002 -- 2003 4122 52 232048 2003 -- 2004 7891 62 403856 2004 -- 2005 14200 75 774988 2005 -- 2006 23055 84 846155 2006 -- 2007 37598 99 940641 2007 -- 2008 51301 100 1073075 2008 -- 2009 60941 106 1204570 2009 -- 2010 58422 109 1307286 2010 -- 2011 71016 117 1372274 2011 -- 2012 97509 119 1535570 2012 -- 2013 132518 Negative List Regime 1712617 Rates Service Tax which started out at a nominal 5 % is now at 15 %. It was increased to 14 % for transactions that happened on or after 1 June 2015 and then for transactions that occurred on or after 15 Nov 2015, the new Swachh Bharat Cess at 0.5 % was also added to the Service Tax. Therefore, the effective rate became 14.5 % with effect from 15 Nov 2015. For transactions that occurred on or after 1 June 2016 this tax is at 15 %. 2016 Union budget of India has proposed to impose a cess, called the Krishi Kalyan Cess, at 0.5 % on all taxable services effective from 1 June 2016. The current service tax is at 15 %. Krishi Kalyan Cess : - With introduction of Krishi Kalyan Cess at 0.5 % w.e.f June 1, 2016, effective rate of Service tax would eventually go up to 15 %, which was earlier increased to 14 % ( with subsumation of Education Cess and Secondary and Higher Education Cess ) from 12.36 % w.e.f June 1, 2015 and Swachh Bharat Cess at 0.5 % on value of all taxable services imposed w.e.f November 15, 2015. Krishi Kalyan Cess, which was announced during the 2016 -- 17 Budget, has become applicable from 1 June. A tax of 0.5 % would be levied over and above the Service Tax and Swachh Bharat Cess. Till 31 May 2016, the Service Tax rate was 14.5 %. With Krishi Kalyan cess, the service tax would increase to 15 %. While Swachh Bharat Cess was levied to conduct cleanliness drive in India, the new cess has been levied for the purpose of financing and promoting initiatives to improve agricultural growth. Small scale exemption Service tax is only liable to be paid in case the total value of the service provided during the financial year is more than ₹ 10 lakh ( US $16,000 ). If the value of services provided during a preceding financial year is less than ₹ 10 lakh ( US $16,000 ), only then this exemption is applicable in the current financial year. it is optional for he wants to avail this exemption or not. Declared services In the year of 2012, service tax laws has witnessed a paradigm shift when the taxation shifts from positive list of services to negative list of services. At that time, another concept of declared service was introduced by the Government of India via Section 66E of Finance Act, 1994. Declared service is the deeming fiction of law. It provides the lawmakers with an arbitrary power to declare any activity as a service. Section 65B ( 22 ) defines the declared service as any activity carried out by a person for another person for consideration and declared as such under section 66E. Further, the definition of service under section 65B ( 44 ) also specifically covers the declared service under the definition of service. This section is also one of the vital sections of Finance Act, 1994. Any service included under this section will be liable to service tax straight. Negative list Budget 2012 revamped the taxation provisions for services by introducing a new system of taxation of services in India. In the new system all services, except those specified in the negative list, are subject to taxation. Earlier the levy of service tax was based on positive list -- specified 119 taxable services. As per clause ( 34 ) of section 65B of the Finance Act, 1994, the term `` Negative List '' means the services which are listed in section 66D. 66D ; government service Registration of service tax As per Service Tax Law it is mandatory for the following categories of persons obtain registration : - Every person liable to pay service tax under Reverse Charge An input service distributor Ever provider of taxable service whose aggregate value of taxable service exceeds 9 lakhs in a financial year. Every person mentioned above will have to get themselves registered under the service tax law within 30 days from the date of commencement of such service or business. Whereas in case of service provider whose aggregate value of taxable service not exceeded 9 lakhs in a financial year not need to obtain registration, where in case he has obtained registration he is liable to payment of service tax only if the value of taxable services exceeds 10 lakhs rupees. ( 2 ) Service tax invoices Rule 4A prescribes that taxable services shall be provided and input credit shall be distributed only on the basis of a bill, invoice or challan. Such bill, invoice or challan will also include documents used by service providers of banking services ( such as pay - in - slip, debit credit advice etc. ) and consignment note issued by goods transport agencies. Rule 4B provides for issuance of a consignment note to a customer by the service provider in respect of goods transport booking services. References Jump up ^ ( PDF ) https://web.archive.org/web/20140202122301/http://www.servicetax.gov.in/ovw/ovw4_analysis-st-rev-ason120913.pdf. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014. Missing or empty title = ( help ) Jump up ^ http://www.cbec.gov.in/resources//htdocs-cbec/press-release/faq-sbc.pdf Jump up ^ `` Budget 2016 : Service tax proposed to be increased from 14.5 % to 15 % '', The Economic Times, 29 February 2016 Jump up ^ `` Krishi Kalyan Cess ''. Jump up ^ `` No Service Tax Up to 10 Lakhs Value of Services Rendered - Small Service Providers Scheme ''. The Tax Info. Retrieved 2016 - 06 - 11. Jump up ^ Karan Batra. `` All about Service Tax & new Service Tax Rate @ 14.5 % ''. Chartered Club. Jump up ^ `` Service tax registration - Import export code ''. hubco.in. Retrieved 2016 - 06 - 12. Jump up ^ Commissionerate of Service Tax, Kolkata ( 1 ) Jump up ^ `` Service Tax Procedures ''. Central Board of Excise and Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. 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Question: who has to pay service tax in india
Answer: an indirect tax wherein the service provider collects the tax on services from service receiver and pays the same to government of India