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[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)
New Delhi, the 12
th
November, 2015
NOTIFICATION
No. 25/2015-Service Tax
G.S.R. (E).-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 (Second Amendment) Rules, 2015.
(2) They shall come into force on the 15
th
day of November, 2015.
2. In the Service Tax Rules, 1994, in rule 6, after sub-rule (7C), the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely:-
​(7D) The person liable for paying the service tax under sub-rule (7), (7A), (7B) or (7C) of rule 6, shall have the option to pay
such amount as determined by multiplying total service tax liability calculated under sub-rule (7), (7A), (7B) or (7C) of rule 6 by
0.5 and dividing the product by 14 (fourteen), during any calendar month or quarter, as the case may be, towards the discharge
of his liability for Swachh Bharat Cess instead of paying Swachh Bharat Cess at the rate specified in sub-section (2) of section
119 of the Finance Act, 2015 (20 of 2015) read with notification No.22/2015-Service Tax, dated the 6
th
November, 2015,
published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 843 (E), dated the 6
th
November , 2015, and the option under this sub-rule once exercised, shall apply uniformly in respect of such services and shall
not be changed during a financial year under any circumstances.​
1. This notification shall come into force from the 15
th
day of November, 2015.
[F.No. 354/129/2015 - TRU]
(K. Kalimuthu)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Note.--The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) by
notification No. 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 by notification No. 05/2015 ​ Service Tax, dated the 1st March, 2015, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
vide number G.S.R. 159(E), dated the 1st March, 2015
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