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Services provided by the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) /Board-- regarding.
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....ew Delhi, 27^th April, 2012 To Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise / Central Excise & Service Tax (All) Director General of Service Tax /Central Excise Intelligence /Audit; Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise/ Central Excise and Service Tax/ Service Tax (All) Madam/Sir, Subject: Services provided by the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committ....
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....the APMC, from the licensees, is used for providing among other things facilities like roads, drinking water, weighing machines, storage places, street lights, etc. in the market area. These services are not provided on one-to-one basis i.e. in consideration or as an obligation to the persons who have tendered the license fee. Some of these services may be capable of being used more conspicu....
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....category of BSS. The distinction between BSS and BAS is explained in the instructions dated 28.02.2006 issued from F.No.334/4/2006-TRU. In the light of the above instruction, the service provided by APMC out of the market fee is not in the nature of 'outsourced service'. It is not possible to hold that the licensees have outsourced the development and maintenance of agricultural ....
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....ral produce, which are 'inputs' in terms of the definition given in section 65(19) of the Finance Act, 1994 itself. To that extent the meaning of 'input' is much wider in scope than the meaning assigned in rule 2(k) of Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004. Therefore, it is clarified that the services provided by the APMC are classifiable as BAS and hence covered by the exemption under Notification 14/2004-ST....