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2016 (8) TMI 946

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..... e Respondent ORDER As per the facts on record the appellants are engaged in the manufacture of grey fabrics and for the said purpose, they have imported yarn from Nepal. Two types of invoices were raised by the Nepalese exporter, that is, one for the value of the goods and the other showing the other showing the other expenses like transportation, clearance expenses, insurance charges, cartage h .....

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..... in respect of other appellants similarly situate. Their appeals before the Tribunal were disposed of vide Final order number 818-832/2010-SM(BR) dated 24.06.2010. Their appeals were allowed by observing as under: "However, on going through the records, I find that there is no evidence showing that the appellants had instructed the Nepalese suppliers to engage the transporters on their behalf. F .....

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..... to the transporters, the service tax is chargeable from the consignees i.e. appellants. But when it is accepted that a it is the Nepalese suppliers who had paid the transportation changes to the transporters, the appellants cannot be treated as person who had engaged the transporter and had paid to them, just because they had reimbursed Nepalese suppliers for the transport expenses from the Nepal .....

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..... from the Nepalese suppliers and their contract with the Nepalese suppliers is the contract for supply of the goods i.e. yarn and not any particular service; arranging the transport of the goods within the Nepal and from Nepal border to the appellants' factory premises by the Nepalese suppliers is an activity incidental to supply of the goods, for which the Nepalese suppliers had engaged trans .....

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