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01-03-2005
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| Notification No: |
Service Tax Notification No 08/2005 ST
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Service Tax
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Notification
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[F. No. 334/1/2005-TRU] |
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appropriate duty of excise” shall not include ‘Nil’ rate of duty or duty of excise wholly exempt
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G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994) (hereinafter referred to as the Finance Act), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the taxable service of production or processing of goods for, or on behalf of, the client "OLD production of goods on behalf of the client] referred in sub-clause (v) of clause (19) of section 65 of the said Finance Act, from the whole of service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the said Finance Act:
(The words “production of goods on behalf of the client” has been substituted vide Notification No. 19/2005-ST, DT. 07/06/2005)
Provided that the said exemption shall apply only in cases where such goods are produced or processed "Old produced" using raw materials or semi-finished goods supplied by the client and goods so produced or processed "Old produced" are returned back to the said client for use in or in relation to manufacture of any other goods falling under the First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986), as amended by the Central Excise Tariff (Amendment) Act, 2004 (5 of 2005), on which appropriate duty of excise is payable.
(In the proviso the words “produced” has been substituted vide Notification No. 19/2005-ST, DT. 07/06/2005)
Expalantion.- For the purposes of this notification,-
(i) the expression “production or processing of goods ” Old“ production of goods” means working upon raw materials or semi-finished goods so as to complete part or whole of production or processing "Old production], subject to the condition that such production or processing "Old production] does not amount to “manufacture” within the meaning of clause (f) of section 2 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944);
(In the Explanation, in clause (i) the words “production of goods” & “production” has been substituted vide Notification No. 19/2005-ST, DT. 07/06/2005)
(ii) “appropriate duty of excise” shall not include ‘Nil’ rate of duty or duty of excise wholly exempt.
[F. No. 334/1/2005-TRU]
(V. Sivasubramanian)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
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