2018 (4) TMI 1152

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....manufacturer and an exporter of steel products. The main ground of the Revenue is that these services have no nexus with the manufacture of the goods and are not covered in the definition of the "input services" at the relevant time.  The period involved is April 2006 to November 2010. 3. Ld. A.R. submits that these services are not covered under the definition of input services as these services have been used beyond the place of removal. He also contends that these services are not the activities relates to business. 4. On the other hand, Ld. Advocate for the respondent submits that the issue is well settled as these are the activities related to business, which have been allowed by this Tribunal in various judgments. In this r....

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....or an office relating to such factory or premises, advertisement or sales promotion, market research, storage up to the place of removal, procurement of inputs, activities relating to business, such as accounting, auditing, financing, recruitment and quality control, coaching and training, computer networking, credit rating, share registry, and security, inward transportation of inputs or capital goods and outward transportation up to the place of removal." Reading of the definition of "input service" as provided above it includes all the services which are rendered in relation to setting up of the business and all activities relating to business which is wide enough to include all the services involved in this case. Learned Counse....