TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2018 (6) TMI 436
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....R) for the Respondent ORDER Brief facts are that the appellants are registered with the Service Tax Department for providing security agency services. Pursuant to audit of accounts, it was noticed that the appellant had not paid the service tax collected from their customers for the period April 2008 to December 2008 and had thus short-paid the service tax. Show cause notice was issued pro....
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....at since the appellant has received the payment from such residential clients, they are liable to discharge the service tax on the said amounts to the tune of Rs. 13,29,016/-. He submitted that the appellant has not retained any amount in respect of the services that were outsourced. That therefore the appellant is not able to pay service tax in regard to the services that has been outsourced or s....
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.... Rs. 13,21,165/- which according to the appellant is the amount received for the security services which have been outsourced by the appellant. He has relied upon the Boards Circular No.96/7/2007-ST dated 23.8.2007 and argued that the said services have been sub-contracted and the appellant is not liable to pay the service tax. It is also argued by the counsel that the demand has been arrived tak....
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....On perusal of records, we find that in respect of services which the appellant was rendering directly, they have discharged the service to the tune of Rs. 17,05,817/- which is much prior to the issue of show cause notice. Therefore, the penalty imposed on this count cannot sustain. The department has issued the show cause notice incorporating these amounts as well as the amount involved for the se....