[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, Part 1l, SECTION 3,
SUB- SECTION (i)]
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)
(CENTRAL BOARD OF EXCISE AND CUSTOMS)
Notification No. 18 /2017- Service Tax
New Delhi, the 22
nd
June, 2017
1 Ashadha, 1939 Saka
G.S.R. (E). - In exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (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 (Fourth Amendment) Rules, 2017.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Service Tax Rules, 1994,-
(i) in rule 7, in sub rule (2), after the second proviso, the following proviso shall be
inserted, namely:-
"Provided also that the return for the period from the 1
st
day of April, 2017, to the
30
th
day of June, 2017, shall be submitted by the 15
th
day of August, 2017, in
Form ST-3' or ‘ST-3C', as the case may be."
(ii) in rule 7B, in sub rule (1), the following proviso shall be inserted namely:-
" Provided that the revised return for the period from the 1
st
day of April, 2017, to
the 30
th
day of June, 2017, shall be submitted within a period of forty five days
from the date of submission of the return under rule 7."
[F.No. 137/18/2017-Service Tax]
(Dr. Sreepavathy S.L.)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Note:- The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section
3, Sub-section (i) vide notification number 2/94-Service Tax, dated the 28
th
June, 1994 vide
number G.S.R.546 (E), dated the 28
th
June, 1994 and last amended vide notification number
16/2017-Service Tax, dated the 13 April, 2017 vide number G.S.R.369 (B), dated the 13th April,
2017.