{"id":2901,"date":"2012-12-13T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2012-12-13T09:13:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T03:43:52","slug":"decoding-your-restaurant-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/decoding-your-restaurant-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoding Your Restaurant Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
Be it your Marriage Anniversary\u00a0or your Birthday or just another day We love going to\u00a0Restaurants. But have you ever checked the\u00a0Restaurant Bills?<\/strong> At the end of the bill we see several headers like Service Charge, VAT, Service Tax, Tax1 and many headers I fail to comprehend.<\/p>\n A few days back Central & Central Excise Department, responsible for Service Tax issued advertisements in leading dailies about What each of these headers mean and How some\u00a0Restaurants are cheating in the name of Government Taxes.<\/p>\n Service Charge:<\/strong> This is charged by\u00a0Restaurant up and above the food cost. This is what is equivalent to tip.\u00a0Government has no role to play in this. This can vary from 5% to 20% and some bills might not even have this.<\/p>\n VAT:<\/strong> This is\u00a0Government Tax and varies from state to state and item to item. It can be as high as 12.5%<\/p>\n Service Tax:<\/strong> This is tax component which is levied by the Government. This is 12.36% of 40% of your food bill and Service Charge, i.e. 4.94% of\u00a0your food bill and Service Charge.<\/p>\n Point to Note:<\/span> Service Charge is different from Service tax<\/strong><\/p>\n Below is the advertisement I was talking about…<\/p>\n