Request-driven road restoration attracts reverse-charge GST, not governmental-function treatment or compensatory-damages status for business recipient...
Road restoration charges for commercial pipeline works are taxable Government services, with reverse charge liability and no public-function exemption...
Model-wise import cap monitoring cannot justify withholding used multifunction machines where all-India tracking is absent and full security is furnis...
Recipient-funded renovation and development expenditure is excluded from the taxable value of renting of immovable property where it is incurred independently, is neither routed through nor controlled by the service provider, and lacks a nexus with the renting service. Service tax remains payable only on the actual rental consideration received. Where tax on that actual consideration and applicable interest are paid before issuance of a show-cause notice, penalties for failure to self-assess and for suppression under sections 77(2) and 78 of the Finance Act, 1994 are not sustained.
Recipient-funded renovation and development expenditure is excluded from the taxable value of renting of immovable property where it is incurred independently, is neither routed through nor controlled by the service provider, and lacks a nexus with the renting service. Service tax remains payable only on the actual rental consideration received. Where tax on that actual consideration and applicable interest are paid before issuance of a show-cause notice, penalties for failure to self-assess and for suppression under sections 77(2) and 78 of the Finance Act, 1994 are not sustained.
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