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Issues: Whether outdoor catering services used for providing canteen facilities to employees qualified as input services under Rule 2(l) of the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 for the period prior to 01.04.2011, and whether credit could be denied on invoices raised after 01.04.2011 for services actually provided before that date.
Analysis: For the period prior to the amendment effective from 01.04.2011, the definition of input service was of wide amplitude and covered services used directly or indirectly in or in relation to manufacture, as well as activities relating to business. The canteen facility was provided in discharge of the statutory obligation under the factories law, and the expenditure formed part of the cost of production. On that basis, outdoor catering services used for such canteen facility were treated as input services. The circular issued by the Board also clarified that credit remains available where the service had been completed before 01.04.2011, even if credit was taken on invoices received later.
Conclusion: Outdoor catering services for the factory canteen were eligible input services for the disputed period prior to 01.04.2011, and the credit taken on invoices relating to services provided before 01.04.2011 could not be denied.
Ratio Decidendi: Under the pre-01.04.2011 regime, services forming part of the cost of production and rendered in discharge of a statutory canteen obligation fall within the ambit of input service, and credit cannot be denied merely because the invoice was issued after the cut-off date when the service itself was already rendered.
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