We at NFN Labs eat out at restaurants a lot almost every day. We had been seeing a lot of people on our Facebook/Twitter feeds talking about the right way to calculate Service Tax, when does service charge come into the picture and what is the percentage of Value Added Tax (VAT) to be applied. It was about how restaurants (wrongly) calculate the total bill amount There are three components in a bill which need to be verified. Service Charge, VAT, Service Tax. Service charge is a percentage added to the bill amount which ranges anywhere from 2% to 15% based on the type/class of the restaurant you decide to eat in and it is only applicable on AC restaurants. VAT is a tax on the final consumption of goods or services that is ultimately borne by the consumer and varies for each state in India Service Tax is calculated as 15% on 40% of [bill amount+service charge] (yeah!) or some restaurants write it as 6% of the bill amount+service charge. Service Tax includes Swachh Bharat Cess(SBC) and Krishi Kalyan Cess(KKC). There have been cases where restaurants charge 15% on the total bill amount. So we thought why not turn this problem into a simple app where all you have to do is enter your bill amount (subtotal) and the app lets you know if there is any discrepancy in the final total after the taxes are levied.
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 1.6 posted on 2013-09-14
Program Details
- Category: System Utilities > System Maintenance
- Publisher: ThreeSea Technologies Private Limited
- License: Free
- Price: N/A
- Version: 1.6
- Platform: ios