Directorate of Service Tax, Mumbai
Department of Revenue,
Ministry of Finance
Type of Facility : How to Apply service Tax Number
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Service Tax Number Registration in India
Registration :
1. Every service provider of a taxable service is required to take registration with the jurisdictional Central Excise Office. A ‘registered’ service provider is referred to as an ‘assessee’ (Refer section 69 of Finance Act, 1994)
2. The service tax is administered by the Central Excise Department. The government website www.exciseandservicetax.nic.in gives the details of the jurisdictional offices of the Central Excise Department, State-wise, District-wise as well as Commissionerate-wise.
3. Following two categories of persons have been identified as ‘Special Category of Persons’ under The Service Tax (Registration of Special Category of Persons) Rules, 2005
4. Input Service Distributor It is an office of the manufacturer of excisable goods or an office of the provider of taxable service. When ‘input services’ are purchased by such office under the cover of invoices issued by a service provider, the said office can distribute the amount of service tax paid on such services, under a cover of invoice / bill / challan to its manufacturing units or service providing units. For this purpose such ‘office’ is required to obtain registration ( by filling up Form S.T.1) under the provisions of the above referred rules. The Input Service Distributor is also required to file a return, on half-yearly basis, giving details of credit received and distributed. (Refer Rule 9(10) of Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004)
5. Any provider of taxable service whose ‘aggregate value of taxable service’ (‘aggregate value’ has been defined in Rule 2(b) of The Service Tax (Registration of Special Category of Persons) Rules, 2005) in a financial year exceeds three lakh rupees is required to apply ( by filling up Form S.T.1) to the jurisdictional Superintendent of Central Excise for registration.

Procedure for Registration :
1. Fill the Form ST-1 in duplicate. (Form ST-1 is available on the departmental website ( www.cbec.gov.in ) Enclose photocopy of PAN card and proof of address to be registered.
2. Copy of PAN card is necessary as a PAN based code (Service Tax Code) is allotted to every assessee.
3. These forms are required to be submitted to the jurisdictional Central Excise office ( in case of six Service Tax Commissionerates, to the jurisdictional Division office. There are separate service tax commissionerates in Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Ahmadabad as mentioned in the previous chapter).
4. Where a person, liable for paying service tax on a taxable service,
5. A single registration is sufficient even when an assessee is providing more than one taxable services. However, he has to mention all the services being provided by him in the application for registration and the field office shall make suitable entries/endorsements in the registration certificate.

Further details refer here : http://www.servicetax.gov.in/st-procedures-new.htm