https://www.taxtmi.com/forum/issue?id=1154 Whether outsourcing processing is manpower recruitment and supply service or job work determines service tax treatment: true job work involves a principal-supplied material returned after processing and may be taxed as Business Auxiliary Service where the final goods are exempt or be outside service tax if goods are excisable. Activities resembling technical work may fall under consulting engineering. Classification depends on contractual terms, operational control and evidential proof, not mere assertion. en-us Thu, 07 May 2009 09:39:10 +0530 Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:58:47 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/forum/issue?id=1154 Whether outsourcing processing is manpower recruitment and supply service or job work determines service tax treatment: true job work involves a principal-supplied material returned after processing and may be taxed as Business Auxiliary Service where the final goods are exempt or be outside service tax if goods are excisable. Activities resembling technical work may fall under consulting engineering. Classification depends on contractual terms, operational control and evidential proof, not mere assertion. Discussion-Forum Service Tax Thu, 07 May 2009 09:39:10 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/forum/issue?id=1154