Service Tax Refund on Exports Hiked

[Service Tax Notification No. 01 dated 3^rd February 2016]

Seeks to amend notification No. 41/2012- ST, dated the 29th June, 2012 so as to allow refund of service tax on services used beyond the factory or any other place or premises of production or manufacture of the said goods for the export of the said goods and to increase the refund amount commensurate to the increased service tax rate.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 93A of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government, hereby makes following amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 41/2012 Service Tax, dated the 29^th June, 2012, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 519(E), dated the 29^th June, 2012, namely:-

In the said notification,-

(a) in the Explanation,-

(I) In clause (A), for sub-clause (i), the following sub-clause shall be substituted, namely:-

(i) in the case of excisable goods, taxable services that have been used beyond factory or any other place or premises of production or manufacture of the said goods, for their export;

(II) clause (B) shall be omitted;

(b) in the Schedule of rates, in column (4),-

(i) for the figures 0.04, wherever they occur, the figures 0.05shall be substituted;

(ii) for the figures 0.06, wherever they occur, the figures 0.07shall be substituted;

(iii) for the figures 0.08, wherever they occur, the figures 0.09shall be substituted;

(iv) for the figures 0.12, wherever they occur, the figures 0.14shall be substituted;

(v) for the figures 0.18, wherever they occur, the figures 0.21shall be substituted; and

(vi) for the figures 0.20, wherever they occur, the figures 0.23shall be substituted.

[F. No. 332/18/2015-TRU]