Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has won a Rs 257 crore service tax reprieve for clients Jetlite before the Custom Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) which held that brand promotion without reference to services offered under business auxiliary services (BAS) category is not taxable.

Exclusive: The Delhi High Court has again stayed the imposition of service tax imposition on immovable property rentals in one of the Home Solutions cases, reaffirming its earlier stance. The order contradicted a Punjab & Haryana High Court order and put the ball back into the Supreme Court, which had asked for the Delhi High Court to adjudicate.

The Supreme Court has directed the Delhi High Court to reach its final verdict quickly in the important matter concerning the levy of service tax on immovable property rentals by declining to stay the high court’s order in a special leave petition (SLP) filed by the Union Government.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) and Naik Paranjpe & Co have respectively represented Bollywood film studios PVR Pictures and Reliance Big Entertainment in filing a writ petition to challenge the imposition of service tax on copyright transfers, which was introduced by the Finance Act 2010 on 1 July 2010.

The government post-budget notifications to tax new services and amend taxation of existing ones have taken effect today, particularly impacting sectors such as aviation, construction and hospital services while retrospective service tax imposition on rentals of immovable property and commercial coaching could increase litigation.

The Delhi High Court stayed the recovery of service tax on rentals of immovable property, reaffirming its April 2009 decision after the Government had sought to impose the tax by amending the charging section under the Finance Act 2010.

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.

Lawyers have threatened legal action over the Government’s new service tax as Delhi litigators are going on strike over the issue today.

BarCouncil-Sinha_th It turns out not all lawyers are against being charged service tax… The Bar Council of India for one has come out in favour of the tax change that was introduced in Monday’s budget , which meant that for the first time ever, Indian lawyers will be deemed to provide a service - so...

The 2009-10 Union Budget has extended service tax to lawyers, which could directly increase legal bills to clients and result in downward pressure on fees.