Union Budget: School education exempt from service tax
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced that school education will be exempt from service tax.

He added that there will be a tax on all services except those 17 items in the negative list. Some infra construction services too have been exempt from service tax.
Besides, service tax has been raised to 12% from 10%.
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