Due Date for Service Tax Return Filing

If you have registered for service tax and have been assigned a service tax registration number, you would be legally responsible for filing service tax return on a half yearly basis. Once you register for service tax, you would be known as an assessee. You would be liable for paying service tax before the due date even if you have not provided any taxable service during that period of time. For the year of 2013, the deadline for filing service tax returns was as it is mentioned:

·         For the period of April 13 to September 13, the due date was 25^th October 2013

·         For the period of October to March 14, the due date is 25^th April 2014

Though service tax returns are filed on half yearly basis, payment of the service tax that is received by the service provider must be deposited to the government on a monthly or a quarterly basis.

You must file the service tax return in the Form ST-3 or ST-3A. There are other specifications that you need to learn when filing service tax returns. If you are at a loss for how you should go about it, consider hiring the services of a company that provides tax related assistance.