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Issues: (i) whether the construction services rendered to Noida Authority for a sports stadium fell within the exemption available to services provided to a governmental authority for construction of works meant predominantly for use other than commerce, industry or any other business or profession; (ii) whether the demand of service tax, along with interest and penalty, could survive in view of the exemption.
Issue (i): whether the construction services rendered to Noida Authority for a sports stadium fell within the exemption available to services provided to a governmental authority for construction of works meant predominantly for use other than commerce, industry or any other business or profession.
Analysis: The exemption under Notification No. 25/12-ST dated 20.06.2012 covered construction services provided to the Government, a local authority or a governmental authority for specified non-commercial works. A governmental authority under the notification had to be an authority established by an Act of Parliament or a State Legislature, with substantial government control, and entrusted with functions under Article 243W of the Constitution. The materials showed that Noida Authority was constituted under the Uttar Pradesh Industrial Area Development Act, 1976, was under State control, and performed municipal functions. The construction was of a sports stadium, which was treated as a public-purpose, non-commercial structure. The later amendment by Notification No. 09/16-ST dated 01.03.2016, read with the retrospective operation given by Section 102 of the Finance Act, 1994, restored the exemption for the relevant period, and the contractual conditions were satisfied.
Conclusion: The services were exempt from service tax and the demand was not sustainable.
Issue (ii): whether the demand of service tax, along with interest and penalty, could survive in view of the exemption.
Analysis: Once the taxable demand itself failed, the consequential levy of interest and penalty had no independent footing.
Conclusion: The demand of interest and penalty could not survive.
Final Conclusion: The impugned order was set aside and the appeal was allowed with consequential relief.
Ratio Decidendi: Construction of a non-commercial sports stadium for an authority established by statute and performing municipal functions is exempt where the governing notification covers services to a governmental authority and the contractual requirements for the exemption are met, including its retrospectively revived scope for the relevant period.
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