| There is very little awareness about service tax among the public and trade circles, though it was introduced more than a decade ago and 95 services being brought into the tax net at present, according to Mr M. Rama Rao, Additional Commissioner of Central Excise. He was speaking at a seminar on service tax here on Tuesday organised by the Vizag commissionerate, Cocanada Chamber of Commerce and Godavari Chamber of Commerce. A help centre had been set up at the Cocanada Chamber of Commerce to help the assessees, he said. Mr D. Surya Rao, President of the Cocanada Chamber of Commerce; Mr P. Bhavana Prasad, President of the Godavari Chamber of Commerce; and Mr Neelank Kumar, Assistant Commissioner, Kakinada division, participated in the seminar.
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