Rule 6: Service Provision for Cultural or Sporting Events is Where the Event Occurs, Not Where Telecasting Rights Are Sold.

Place of provision of services - Rule 6 of the Place of Provision of Service Rules, 2012, provides and clarifies that in case of any cultural or sporting event and/or services related to such event, shall be the ‘place’ where the event is actually held - Admittedly the event was held outside India (Zimbabwe), and this service has not been received in India, rather it was meant for Bangladesh, for which territory, the telecasting rights were purchased and resold by the appellants. Only for the reason that the appellant provider or trader of telecasting right is located in India, it cannot be assumed or presumed by any stretch of imagination, that the service under dispute has been received in India. - AT .....

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