Government-Funded Entity Challenges Service Tax Due to Exemption Gap Under Mega Exemption Notification.

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....Levy of Service Tax - When the order suffers from a patent illegality, it is certainly open to the aggrieved party to invoke the writ jurisdiction of this Court - petitioner is a public sector undertaking. It is funded entirely by the Government. Even for the construction activities in question, the allocation was made only by the Government of Tamil Nadu. Such construction activities have been explicatively exempted by the Mega Exemption Notification issued on 20.06.2012. Of course, for a short duration, exemption was not available - HC....