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Remittances won’t attract any service tax: CBEC

11 Jul 2012 Evaluate

Clearing the air on service tax on remittances, the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) in a notification has said that ‘there is no service tax per se on the amount of foreign currency remitted to India from overseas.’ The clarification will benefit exporters, families of students studying abroad and people receiving remittances from abroad and the exporter community has expressed satisfaction at this explanation.

Further clarifying, the CBEC stated that in the negative list regime, the term ‘service’ excludes transactions in money. As the remittance comprises money, the activity does not comprise a ‘service’ and is thus not subjected to service tax. And that in terms of the Place of Provision of Services Rules, 2012, such services are deemed to be provided outside India and thus not liable to service tax. Also, that even the Indian counterpart bank or financial institution, which charges the foreign bank or any other entity for the services provided at the receiving end, is not liable to service tax as the place of provision of such service shall be the location of the recipient of the service.

The chief ministers of Punjab, Kerala along with Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, who are among the largest beneficiaries of such foreign currency transfer from emigrants employed in the Gulf countries, Canada and the US had taken up the issue of service tax on remittances and raised concerns in view of new tax norms.

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