TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2018 (8) TMI 1114
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....rinciple was laid down that which commission will attract the service tax and which will not, since the demand made on the consolidated amount, for the purpose of verification and re-quantification, the matter was remanded to the adjudicating authority. He prays for following the same judgment. 3. Sh. K. J. Kinariwala Ld. Assistant Commissioner (AR) appearing on behalf of the Revenue reiterates the findings of the impugned order. 4. On careful consideration of the submission made by both the sides. We find that all the appellants are similarly placed distributors of Amway India Enterprise Pvt Ltd, as the various distributoras involved in the judgment of Charanjeet Singh Khanuja (Supra), we find that in the said judgement the Division Bench of this Tribunal passed following order: "9. The appellants in the appeals ST/138 and 139/2009, ST/406/2010, ST/522 to 525, 257, 259, 433, 473, 502, 580, 1123, 1383, 1781 & 1802/2011, ST/56, 86, 126, 645/2012 and ST/1723-1724, 2337 and 2810/2012 and the respondents in the Appeals Nos. ST/851 to 854, 863, 864, 865, 866, 867, 868, 869, 870 and 878/2012 filed by the Revenue are distributors of Amway India Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. Amway o....
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.... 65(19) : "Business auxiliary service" means any service in relation to,- (i) Promotion or marketing or sale of goods produced or provided by or belonging to the client; or (ii) Promotion or marketing of service provided by the client; or Explanation. - For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that for the purposes of this sub-clause, "service in relation to promotion or marketing of service provided by the client" includes any service provided in relation to promotion or marketing of games of chance, organized, conducted or promoted by the client, in whatever form or by whatever name called, whether or not conducted online, including lottery, lotto, bingo; (iii) Any customer care service provided on behalf of the client; or (iv) Procurement of goods or services, which are inputs for the client; or xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " 12. According to the Department, the activity of the assessees is "promotion or marketing or sale of the goods produced or provided by or belonging to the client." In our view, the activity which is covered under Section 19(i) is in relation to the promotion or marketing or sale of the goods....
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....ss Auxiliary Service of sales promotion provided to Amway. Therefore, service tax would be chargeable on the commission received by a Distributor from Amway on the products purchased by his sales group. However, in the impugned orders Service tax has been demanded on the gross amount of commission and no distinction has been made between the commission earned by a Distributor from Amway based on his own volume of purchase from Amway and the commission earned by him on the basis of the volume of purchases of Amway products made by his sales group i.e. group of second level of Distributors appointed by Amway on being sponsored by the Distributor. For quantifying the Service tax demand on the commission received from Amway on the volume of purchase made by the distributors sponsored /enrolled by a particular distributor i.e. the Distributor's sales group, these matters would have to be remanded to the Original Adjudicating Authority. 14. Another objection raised by the appellants in Appeals Nos. ST/138 and 139/2009, ST/406/2010, ST/522 to 525/2010, ST/257, 259, 433, 473, 502, 580, 1123, 1383, 1781 &1802/2011, ST/56, 86, 126, 645/2012 and ST/1723-1724, 2337 and 2810/2012 and t....
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....o the Original Adjudicating Authority. 16. Another plea raised in these appeals is regarding limitation. It is the contention of the assessees that there was absolutely no suppression or mis-statement of facts or deliberate contravention of the provisions of the Finance Act, 1994 or of the Rules made thereunder with intent to evade payment of Service tax. The Department's contention, on the other hand, is that the assessees neither obtained service tax registration nor did they declare their activities to the jurisdictional Service tax authorities nor did they file ST-3 Return and, therefore, they are guilty of suppression of relevant facts and deliberate violation of the provisions of Finance Act, 1994 and of the Rules made thereunder with intent to evade payment of tax. On considering the rival submissions on this point, we are of the view merely because the assessees did not apply for Service Tax Registration or did not file ST-3 Returns or did not declare their activities to the jurisdictional central excise authorities, it cannot be inferred that this was a wilful act with intent to evade payment of service tax. We also take notice of the fact that in respect of appea....