Asking all service providers above the threshold of Rs. 10 lakh to pay service tax before March 28, Guntur Central Excise and Customs Assistant Commissioner S. Khader Rehman on Wednesday made it clear that stern action would be taken against service tax evaders.
“We will issue show-cause notices to defaulters and go to the extent of arresting the defaulters, freezing their bank accounts and attaching immovable property to recover service tax dues,” he told a press conference here along with Superintendents D. Madhu Babu (Central Excise) and P. Ajaykumar (Service Tax).
“We have collected Rs. 560 crore as service tax till February as against the target of Rs. 709 crore in the Commissionarate comprising the districts of West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam and Nellore,” he said. In Prakasam district, Rs. 16 crore was collected as service tax so far as against the target of Rs. 20 crore, he added.
He said a special drive would be taken up to ensure compliance by those providing 119 types of services, including tourism and hospitality, construction, transport, stock broking, security services, event management, fashion designing, health clubs, advertising, beauty parlours, and cable operations.
Those services in the negative list included services rendered by India post, RBI, foreign diplomatic missions in the country, agriculture-related services and higher secondary school level education.
