2010 (9) TMI 336

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....o party like M/s. Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (P) Ltd., M/s. Meenakshi Polymers as OE components. The purchase orders placed by their buyers were on FOR destination basis. The appellants, accordingly, took credit of service tax paid on outward freight involved in transporting the final products from their factory gate to the premises of the buyers. The original authority held that such transportation involved from factory gate to the buyers premises cannot be treated as input services and accordingly denied the credit and confirmed a demand of Rs. 61,950/- alongwith interest and imposed equal amount as penalty under Section 11AC of the Act. Commissioner (Appeals) has upheld the order of the original authority. 4. Learned Advoca....

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....ise levy is to be determined on the basis of price at the time and place of removal. The appellants have chosen to entertain a purchase order on FOR destination basis and chosen to pay excise duty including the freight and insurance involved in transporting the goods from their factory gate to the premises of the buyers. Merely on this ground, the goods transporting agency services used for transporting goods from the factory gate to the premises of the buyers cannot become input services for the appellant. It cannot be disputed that in respect of buyer, the automotive parts supplied by the appellants are inputs and the transportation involved from factory gate of the appellants to the buyer's premises will be input services for the said bu....