« Top Headlines » Open DEMAT Account in 24 hrs  MEF 2024-25 Now Open: Submit Your Multipurpose Empanelment Form at MEFICAI.org Before October 7  Best Tax Saving Investments for Senior Citizens in 2024  60 LPA Opening Manager - Business Finance  Didn't Receive the Income Tax Refund? This Might Be the Reason  Why we need a new Income-Tax Act  ITR 2024: No tax refund yet? Here's why it's delayed and how to check  ITR Filing: Income Tax Refund Not Received Yet? Here's What to Do Now «  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.