In the case, the Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) is taking the Government to court for putting law firms under the service tax regime . These are SILF’s grounds of the writ and the relief sought. A: Service tax is a tax on “service” and not on the “service provider”. As such, so long as the natur...

The Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) has filed a writ in the Bombay High Court against the most recent Union Budget’s service tax on law firms, contesting its rationality and constitutional grounds.