Amends Service Tax Rules, 1994 to capture details of Service Tax Return Preparer by providing an entry in Form ST-3

                                                      New Delhi, the 17^th   March,2009

Notification No. 10 / 2009-ST

 G.S.R�. (E). In exercise of the powers conferred by 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 (Amendment) Rules, 2009.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2.              In the Service Tax Rules, 1994, in Form ST-3, after S. No. 7 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be inserted, namely,-

"8. If the return has been prepared by a Service Tax Return Preparer (STRP), furnish further details as below:

(Signatures of Service Tax Return Preparer)".

[F. No. 137/318/2007-CX.4 (Pt. 2)]

(Ashima Bansal)

Under Secretary to Government of India

Note.-   The principal rules were notified vide notification No. 2/94-Service Tax, dated the 28th June 1994 and published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary vide number G.S.R.546 (E), dated the 28th June 1994 and were last amended vide notification No. 31/2008-Service Tax, dated the 2^nd September, 2008 which was published vide number G.S.R.633 (E), 2^nd September, 2008.