TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2009 (11) TMI 237
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.... the Appellant. M. Ravi Rajendran for the Respondent. ORDER 1. This application is filed by M/s. Sri Venkata Balaji Jute (P.) Ltd. The application seeks waiver of pre-deposit and stay of recovery of Rs. 61,781 along with applicable interest demanded from them towards inadmissible benefit of exemption of service tax availed by them under the category Goods Transport Agency (GTA) and penalt....
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....nt availed. The Notification had prescribed that the exemption shall not apply in such cases where - "(i) the credit of duty paid on inputs or capital goods used for providing such taxable service has been taken under the provisions of the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004; or (ii) the goods transport agency has availed the benefit under the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of....
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....No. 12/2003-Service Tax has been taken by them may suffice for the purpose of availment of abatement by the person liable to pay service tax." 4. The impugned order denied the benefit for want of such declarations. As rightly submitted by the learned Counsel for the appellants, the requirement as regards declaration is a matter of procedure. As the appellants had filed a declaration to the effe....