Revenue Must Identify Taxable Foreign Service and Confirm Foreign Currency Payment Before Applying Reverse Charge Tax.

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....For levying of service tax under reverse charge mechanism, Revenue has to first identify the taxable service received from abroad for which payment was made in foreign currency, which, as seen from the paragraphs of the impugned order quoted above, has not been done at all. This is clearly fatal - AT....