Court Rules Withholding Payment for Service Tax Deduction Violates Contract's All-Inclusive Rate Agreement.

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....Deduction of service tax from the amount payment (consideration) as per the contract terms - scope of the terms of agreement - the parties did not envisage deduction in the agreed rate from alleged service tax payment. The agreed rate was understood by the parties to be all inclusive and the same would bind the parties. - The respondent have acted illegally, wrongly and malafidely withholding the amount on the alleged ground that service tax is not applicable to the agreed rate.....