https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=184305 Technical advice and consultative work connected with software installation and implementation was treated as Consulting Engineer service under the Finance Act, 1994. The reasoning noted that the service category was not limited to traditional engineering disciplines and could extend to engineering techniques applied to management and software-related functions. A separate exemption notification for software-related consulting engineer services was also viewed as indicating that such services could fall within the service tax net. On that basis, advisory and consultative services by software engineers were brought within the taxable category and the service tax demand was upheld. en-us Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 05 Jul 2016 11:39:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=184305 Technical advice and consultative work connected with software installation and implementation was treated as Consulting Engineer service under the Finance Act, 1994. The reasoning noted that the service category was not limited to traditional engineering disciplines and could extend to engineering techniques applied to management and software-related functions. A separate exemption notification for software-related consulting engineer services was also viewed as indicating that such services could fall within the service tax net. On that basis, advisory and consultative services by software engineers were brought within the taxable category and the service tax demand was upheld. Case-Laws Service Tax Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=184305