Service Tax - No exemption for pilot training
Mr.PRAFUL Patel had demanded in the Rajya Sabha that pilot training institutions should be exempted from Service Tax as students are going abroad for the training and the Government is releasing foreign exchange.
Responding to the request, Ms Sitharaman said, "Let this be clarified that universities established by law or universities which give certificates do not attract service taxes. However, pilot training centres do not give certificates and such institutions certainly attract service tax and on that point of clarification -- we would like to make that absolutely clear."