« Top Headlines » Open DEMAT Account in 24 hrs  Mastering Online Income Tax Return Filing: Step-by-Step Guide For Easy ITR Filing  Notification No. 27/2023 CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES  How to calculate income tax on stock market earnings along with your salary?  10 things to remember while investing in tax saving fixed deposits (FDs)  How HRA exemption can help you save tax in 2023-24  Filing ITR On Your Own? A Senior Income Tax Expert Suggests This  Income tax return filing for FY22-23: Form 16 issue date, ITR forms and more  Notification No. 22/2023 CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES «  PAN must from April 1 to trade in futures... Transfer pricing adjustments: Income-tax notice to IT cos... » Awareness on service tax in Kakinada December, 20th 2006 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.