Service Tax

Service task is a form of indirect taxation imposed on specified run called taxable function. Service tax cannot be levied on whatever service which is not included in the list of taxable services. oer the past few years, service tax been expanded to cover saucy services. The objective behind levying service tax is to reduce the degree of frenzy of taxation on manufacturing and trade without forcing the government to compromise on the receipts needs. The intention of the government is to gradually increase the list of taxable services until most services fall within the scope of service tax.For the aim of levying service tax, the value of any taxable service should be the tax income amount charged by the service provider for the service rendered by him. Service Tax was first brought into force with effect from 1 July 1994. either service providers in India, except those in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, are needed to pay a Service Tax in India. Initially and three servi ces were brought under the net of service tax and the tax rate was 5%. Gradually more services came under the grasp of Service Tax.The rate of tax was increased from 5% to 8% w. e. f 14 May 2003. From 10 September 2004 the rate of Service Tax was enhanced to 10% from 8%. Besides this 2% education cess on the amount of Service Tax was also introduced. In the Union calculate of India for the year 2006-2007, service tax was increased from 10% to 12%. On February 24, 2009 in order to give relief to the industry reeling under the feign of economic recession, The rate of Service Tax was reduced from 12 per centime to 10 per cent.