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Limit for mandatory e-payment under ST reduced to Rs. 1 lakh from Rs. 10 lakhs w.e.f. 01.01.2014

The Central Government has third amendement vide Notification No 16 /2013-Service Tax, New Delhi, the  22nd November, 2013 to Rule 6(2) of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 which is as under:

RULE 6 OF THE SERVICE TAX RULES, 1994 - PAYMENT - SERVICE TAX - LIMIT FOR MANDATORY E-PAYMENT REDUCED FROM RS. 10 LAKHS TO RS. 1 LAKHS

TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, PART II,   SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

Notification No 16 /2013-Service Tax
New Delhi, the  22nd November, 2013
1 Agrahayana, 1935 Saka

G.S.R   (E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with sub-section (2) of section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 ( 32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Service Tax Rules, 1994,  namely:-
1.    (1) These rules may be called the Service Tax  Third ( Amendment) Rules, 2013.
(2)  They shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 2014.

2.    In the Service Tax Rules, 1994,  in rule 6,  in sub-rule (2),  in the proviso,  for the words “ rupees ten lakh” , the words   “ rupees one lakh”   shall be substituted.

F.No: 137/116/2012- Service Tax
(Rajeev Yadav)
Director

Note: The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3,  Sub-section (i) vide notification No. 2/94-Service Tax, dated the 28th June, 1994 vide number G.S.R 546(E), dated the  28th June, 1994 and was last amended by notification No 5/2013- Service Tax, dated the 10th April, 2013, vide GSR 236 (E) dated the 22nd February, 2013.