« Top Headlines » Open DEMAT Account in 24 hrs  ITR Filing and Income Tax Audit Deadline Extended: 5 Critical Things Taxpayers Must Know  Filing Belated ITR for AY 2026-27? Know Which Losses You Can Carry Forward and Which You May Lose  CBDT Extends Tax Audit Report Deadline to October 21, ITR Filing Last Date to November 21 for AY 2026-27  CBDT Extends AY 2026-27 ITR Filing Deadline for Tax-Audit Cases: New Dates and Key Compliance Details  Foreign Assets Missing From Your ITR? Income Tax Department Opens One-Time Disclosure Window  Tax Audit Deadline September 30: Why AIS, TDS and GST Figures May Not Match Your ITR and What Taxpayers Should Do  Tax audit deadline September 30: Common mistakes taxpayers should avoid  Your ITR says ‘verified’, but the refund hasn’t arrived? 5 reasons why your money could be stuck  Missed the ITR Deadline but TDS Refund Is Due? Here’s How You Can Still Claim Your Money  ITAT Cuts ?4.85 Lakh Penalty After ?14.02 Lakh Interest Income Was Missed in ITR  ITR filed under old regime, tax calculated under new regime; Delhi ITAT gives taxpayer relief «  Stress on measuring `intangibles' in company's growth... Finmin not for tax sops to Delhi Metro... » Service tax likely for IMFL distillers October, 06th 2006 Distillers engaged in the manufacture of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) of various brands on job work basis may have to fork out service-tax on the `job charges' received by them from brand owners. The Finance Ministry has taken a view that the activity of blending, manufacturing, bottling or labelling on job work basis by a distiller, in respect of IMFL on behalf of brand owner, would be covered under the category of `business auxiliary services'. The Central Board of Excise and Customs has issued a draft circular to this effect and sought the views of stakeholders on the levy of service-tax on distillers under `business auxiliary services' for manufacture of IMFL on job work basis. Service-tax expert, Mr J.K. Mittal, said that this issue had been pending since the second half of 2004 and that the Finance Ministry has now through the draft circular taken the view that such services are in the nature of business auxiliary services and therefore attract service tax. He also pointed out that the job worker might pass on the service tax levy to the brand owner, who would not be able to set-off this tax as manufacture of IMFL being potable alcoholic beverage was outside the scope of central excise law.