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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
New Delhi, the 17th September, 2007
Notification No.40/2007-Service Tax
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), the Central Government,
on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do,
hereby exempts the taxable services specified in the Schedule (hereinafter
referred to as specified services) received by an exporter and used for
export of goods (hereinafter referred to as said goods), from the whole of
the service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the said Finance Act,
subject to the following conditions, namely:-
(a) the exemption shall be claimed by the exporter of the goods for
the specified services received and used by the exporter for export of
the said goods;
(b) the exemption claimed by the exporter shall be provided by way of
refund of service tax paid on the specified services used for export of
the said goods;
(c) the exporter claiming the exemption has actually paid the service
tax on the specified services;
(d) the exemption or refund of service tax paid on the specified
services used for export of said goods shall not be claimed except under
this notification.
2. The exemption contained in this notification shall be given effect
to in the following manner, namely:-
(a) the person liable to pay service tax under sub-section (1) or
sub-section (2) of section 68 of the said Finance Act shall pay service
tax as applicable on the specified services provided to the exporter and
used for export of the said goods, and such person shall not be eligible
to claim exemption for the specified services:
Provided that where the exporter of the said goods and the person
liable to pay service tax under sub-section (2) of section 68 for the
said services are the same person, then in such cases exemption for
the specified services shall be claimed by that person;
(b) the exporter shall claim the exemption by filing a claim for
refund of service tax paid on specified services:
Provided that,-
(i) the manufacturer-exporter of the said goods shall file the
claim for refund to the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise or
the Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, having
jurisdiction over the factory of manufacture or warehouse, and
(ii) the exporter, other than a manufacturer-exporter, shall file
the claim for refund to the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise
or the Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise having jurisdiction over
the registered office of such exporter,
(c) the claim for refund shall be filed on a quarterly basis, within
sixty days from the end of the relevant quarter during which the said
goods have been exported:
Provided that the said goods shall be deemed to be exported on the
date on which the proper officer of Customs makes an order permitting
clearance and loading of the said goods for exportation under section
51 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962);
(d) the refund claim shall be accompanied by documents evidencing,-
(i) export of the said goods;
(ii) payment of service tax on the specified services for which
claim for refund of service tax paid is filed;
(e) the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise or the Deputy
Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, shall, after
satisfying himself that the said services have been actually used for
export of said goods, refund the service tax paid on the specified
services used for export of said goods:
Provided that where any refund of service tax paid on specified
services used for export of said goods has been paid to an exporter
but the sale proceeds in respect of the said goods have not been
realised by or on behalf of the exporter in India within the period
allowed under the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999),
including any extension of such period, such service tax refunded
shall be recoverable under the provisions of the said Finance Act and
the rules made thereunder, as if it is a recovery of service tax
erroneously refunded.
Schedule
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Sr. No. |
Taxable Services |
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Classification under Finance Act, 1994 |
Description |
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(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
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1. |
Section 65(105)(zn) |
Services provided for export of said goods |
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2. |
Section 65(105)(zzl) |
Services provided for export of said goods |
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3. |
Section 65(105)(zzp) |
Services provided for transport of said goods from the inland
container depot to the port of export |
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4. |
Section 65(105)(zzzp) |
Services provided for transport of said goods from the inland
container depot to the port of export |
[F.No.341/15/2007-TRU]
(G.G. Pai)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
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