2016 (8) TMI 894

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

Full Text of the Document

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

.... with the service tax department and were filing due returns. It is seen that though they were discharging their service tax liability in respect of various clients on the basis of the gross value received by them, in respect of one client, the service tax was being discharged only on the commission received by them. According to the appellant, whereas their client were paying their service tax amount on the full value, one of them was of the view that service tax is not liable on the full value of the services but only on the commission so received by them. Accordingly, the said client was paying service tax to the appellant, which was admittedly being deposited with the jurisdictional central excise authority. 2. Subsequently, as a res....

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

Full Text of the Document

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

....r from the facts and circumstances which have been dealt with in detail hereinabove, that there was definitely a reasonable cause because they were under bonafide belief that service tax was not payable under Rule 6(1) ibid, until received from the recipient of services. Interpretation of statutory provisions, which may differ from person to person, is a just and reasonable cause to do an act to mention here that neither is there any iota of evidence of contumacious act, nor deliberate violation of law on the part of the Noticee. Therefore, the Noticee is entitled for the protection of Section 80 of the Act, for that this section in its axiomatic approach protects those who are honest and law abiding taxpayers and debars those who have eith....