In a move towards online automation of payment of service taxes initiative, the central government makes online payment of service tax payment mandatory for Rs. 1lac and above .

You can use this link to pay off service tax online

The full notification is reproduced as below :

RULE 6 OF THE SERVICE TAX RULES, 1994 – PAYMENT – SERVICE TAX – LIMIT FOR MANDATORY E-PAYMENT REDUCED FROM RS. 10 LAKHS TO RS. 1 LAKHS

NOTIFICATION NO. 16/2013-ST, DATED 22-11-2013

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1), read with sub-section (2) of section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 ( 32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Service Tax Rules, 1994, namely:—

1. (1) These rules may be called the Service Tax Third ( Amendment) Rules, 2013.

(2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 2014.

2. In the Service Tax Rules, 1994, in rule 6, in sub-rule (2), in the proviso, for the words ” rupees ten lakh” , the words ” rupees one lakh” shall be substituted.

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