2018 (6) TMI 1419

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.... but were not paying service tax leviable thereon. The summons were issued to the appellant. According to the department, since the appellant did not respond to repeated summons nor submitted the documents called for by the summons, therefore the department vide letter dated 11.6.2014 requested ICICI bank to furnish statement of bank accounts held by the appellant. The ICICI bank vide letter dated 18.6.2014 furnished copies of statements of appellants' bank account. After investigation, a show cause notice dated 21.4.2015 was issued to the appellant as to why: i) Service Tax amounting to Rs. 12,64,470/- (including Education Cess & Secondary & Higher Education Cess) should not be demanded and recovered from them under the proviso to....

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....x) at the rate of twelve percent on the value of all services, other than those services specified in the negative list, provided or agreed to be provided in the taxable territory by one person to another and collected in such manner as may be prescribed. 7. There is no dispute about the fact that service provided by the appellant are squarely covered under the ambit of "Recovery Agent Service" up to 30.6.2012 as per the definition given in erstwhile Section 65(105) (zzzl) of the Act and continued to be taxable even in the changed legal scenario by virtue of negative list regime by 1.7.2012 being a service that is not specified in the negative list of services given under section 66D of the Act and thus, it continues to attract levy of s....