Court stays proposed service tax on individual lawyers (Lead)
April 29th, 2011 - 4:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday stayed the central government’s notification seeking to bring individual lawyers, who extend services to companies and firms, under the service tax net from May 1. The matter will now be heard May 24.
The division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna heard the petition of the Delhi High Court Bar Association and asked the central government to file its response within two weeks.
The notification was meant to also bring under the service tax net, individual lawyers rendering their services to firms and companies. Legal firms, as opposed to individual lawyers, are already under the service tax net since last year.
Individual lawyers extending services to individuals remain outside the ambit.
Various bar associations had gone on strike March 24 to protest the move proposed in the federal budget for 2011-12 presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. He had sought to exempt individual lawyers rendering their services to individuals.
A similar move by his predecessor P. Chidambaram in 2007 was withdrawn due to protests.
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