Seeks to amend Notification No. 25/2012 by inserting new entry for granting exemption from service tax for the services provided by Government or a local authority to a business entity having turnover upto rupees of ten lakh in the preceding financial year

[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)
NEW DELHI

New Delhi, the 18^th February, 2016 

NOTIFICATION NO. 07/2016-Service Tax

GSR….(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No.25/2012-Service Tax, dated the 20^th  June, 2012, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 467 (E), dated the 20^th  June, 2012, namely:-

1.         In the said notification, in the opening paragraph,

(i) after entry No. 47, the following shall be inserted, namely-

“(48) Services provided by Government or a local authority to a business entity with a turnover up to rupees ten lakh in the preceding financial year.” 

2.         The amendment shall come into effect on 1^st April, 2016.

[F. No. B1/10/2015-TRU]

(K. Kalimuthu)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

Note:-The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, by notification No. 25/2012 – Service Tax, dated the 20^th  June, 2012, vide number G.S.R. 467 (E), dated the 20th June, 2012 and last amended by notification No.20/2015 – Service Tax, dated the 21^st October, 2015 vide number G.S.R. 799(E), dated the 21^st October, 2015.