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..... Service Tax New Cases
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Dated:- 20-5-2008

1 Service Tax - 2008 - TMI - 4105 - CESTAT BANGALORE Courier Agency Service provided partly outside India - revenue contended that assessee has not received payment for such services in convertible foreign exchange - as per Rule 3(2) of Export Services Rules amended w.e.f. 15.6.05 appellant would be liable to pay ST, a .....

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..... s the service would be considered as export of service only if payment is received in convertible foreign exchange - Disputed period is prior to this amendment so impugned service will be held as export of services - appeal allowed 2 Service Tax - 2008 - TMI - 4104 - CESTAT, CHENNAI OIO rejected refund claim & appropriated the tax paid by the party in the category of 'Man Power Recruiting Agen .....

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..... cy' towards the tax which ought to have been paid in the category of 'Security Agency' - impugned order sustainable as amount payable by assessee can be adjusted against amount refundable (collected wrongly) - Sec 67(v) didn't provide abatement of such expenses reimbursable or wages of employees - so Security Agency is required to pay ST on gross amount charged by it from its client 3 Service Ta .....

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..... x - 2008 - TMI - 4103 - CESTAT, NEW DELHI Appellants had agreement with Bank to promote their retail activities - there is no force in contention of appellants that they are not providing any business auxiliary service, and they are under the franchise agreement with Bank - conditions of the agreement shows that appellants has to promote retail finance of bank - appellants are not paying to bank .....

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..... any amount being their franchise - even, they are getting commission from bank - impugned services coverable under business auxiliary service 4 Service Tax - 2008 - TMI - 4102 - CESTAT, CHENNAI Cellular phone service providers - imported SIM cards and sold the same to their customers on payment of sales tax - also activated SIM cards by giving connection - also paid service tax on the activat .....

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..... ion charges - Revenue's contention that value of SIM card should have been added to activation charge for the purpose of payment of ST, is not justified - held that there should be no levy of service tax on the value of the SIM cards, because service tax is leviable on services not on goods 5 Service Tax - 2008 - TMI - 4087 - CESTAT, NEW DELHI As per Cir. 10/04, the transfer of Intellectual Pr .....

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..... operty rights doesn't amount to rendering service - in this case, there is no evidence on record to show that assessee had paid for technical assistance, as per the agreement, the same is optional - In absence of such evidence, we find no merit in the contention of revenue - Order of comm.(A) that agreement
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