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Issues: Whether printing of photographs and photobooks/photo albums amounts to a taxable photography service, or whether the activity is manufacture classifiable under Chapter 4911 and therefore not exigible to service tax.
Analysis: The activity involved receipt of photographs in soft form, their printing on paper, laminating, stapling and binding into hard-bound photo books, resulting in a complete change in the identity and nature of the goods. The relevant service entry for photography covers services provided by a photography studio or agency in relation to photography, while Chapter 4911 covers printed pictures, designs and photographs as products of the printing industry. The activity was held to fall within the printing/manufacturing stream rather than the taxable photography service. The decision also noted the exemption available to printing activity under the cited notifications.
Conclusion: The activity is not taxable as photography service; it is manufacture classifiable under Chapter 4911 and no service tax is payable.
Final Conclusion: The impugned demand of service tax was unsustainable and the appeal succeeded with consequential relief.
Ratio Decidendi: Where printing and conversion of photographs into finished photo books results in a new product falling within the printing tariff heading, the activity is manufacture and not a taxable photography service.
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