New Delhi: A recent Delhi high court verdict directing the central revenue authorities to refund service tax collected from three travel portals including MakeMyTrip may be challenged in the Supreme Court by the government. People familiar with the matter on Sunday said legal experts are going through the high court order and an appeal challenging the verdict is likely to be filed in the Supreme Court. “The service tax probe against these companies are still going on. The DGCEI alleged that the firms were not depositing service tax being collected from their customers. Service tax is charged at the rate of 14.5%, including 0.5% Swachh Bharat cess.

Source: Mint September 04, 2016 16:41 UTC