Providing relief to SEZ units and developers, the Finance Ministry today said they will be entitled to refund of the Swachh Bharat cess.

The recently-introduced Swachh Bharat Cess adds-on to the service tax liability and is applicable on all taxable services.

The Swachh Bharat Mission includes building household toilets, community and public toilets and scientific waste management.

He pointed out that the Swachh Bharat programme was actually just a renamed central government programme that the UPA used to called Nirmal...

The Centre said that the proceeds collected through the cess would be allocated to the state governments to fund Swachh Bharat initiatives.

The recently imposed Swachh Bharat Cess will not be levied on services exempted from tax or are in the negative list, the Central Board of ...

Indian industry hasn’t taken too kindly to the recent imposition of a cess to help fund the Swachh Bharat initiative.

CPI(M) said the levy will pinch the pockets of the already "broken" common man and demanded that the government announce how much money was...

The Ministry, however, clarified that the Swachh Bharat cess will not apply on those services for which payments have been received prior t...

Travel in railways' upper class categories has become costlier as a service tax levy of 14 per cent and a Swachh Bharat cess of 0.5 per cen...

With the imposition of the cess, service tax rate will go up from 14 per cent to 14.5 per cent on all taxable services.

Rajasthan Congress Chief Sachin Pilot today opposed imposing of Swachh Bharat cess by the Centre saying the government was putting "burden"...

Air travel, telephony, eating out, etc will become expensive from Nov 15 as the govt today imposed a 0.5% per cent cess on all taxable serv...

The Swachh Bharat 2 per cent cess on various services will be notified at a later date, the Finance Ministry said today.

The group was told that the cess may be 0.5 per cent or 1 or per cent or even 2 per cent depending upon the requirement.

Jaitley further proposed to an enabling provision to levy Swachh Bharat Cess at a rate of 2 per cent or less on all or certain services, if...

Phone and internet bills may go up as the government plans to levy a cess on telecom services to create a corpus for funding the 'Swachh Bh...