Tax Authority Must Justify Service Tax Levy; Burden Not on Appellant to Prove Exemption.

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....Demand of service tax - there must be a ‘levy of Tax’ for anyone to claim the benefit of exemption from such ‘levy of Tax’. The Department could have come up with sufficient cause to inflict the levy of Tax on the activities undertaken by the Appellant- rather than seeking the Appellant to prove the cause of non-levy of Service tax.....