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Issues: Whether the service provider could recover service tax arrears from service recipients for the period prior to registration and whether such recovery was barred in the absence of a prescribed time limit.
Analysis: The relevant provisions of the Finance Act, 1993 placed the primary obligation to pay service tax on the service provider, who was also required to register, assess the tax, collect it from the service recipient and remit it to the competent authority. The amendment bringing the concerned port within the tax net justified recovery from the date the levy became applicable. The absence of prior registration did not extinguish the tax liability, and no provision prescribed a time limit prohibiting collection of the arrears once registration was obtained. Section 73 was noted as providing machinery for recovery of short-paid or unpaid tax, which did not negate the service provider's liability to collect and deposit the tax in the first instance.
Conclusion: The recovery of arrears by the service provider was valid and the challenge to retrospective collection failed.
Final Conclusion: The demand for service tax arrears was upheld and the appeal was dismissed.
Ratio Decidendi: Where service tax is statutorily leviable on a service provider, delayed registration does not bar recovery of arrears from the date the levy applies, and the service provider remains responsible for collection and deposit of the tax in the absence of any statutory time bar.
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