CENVAT Credit Valid for Service Recipient Once Service Tax Paid, Regardless of Initial Responsibility. Consistent Tribunal Rulings.

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....CENVAT Credit - input services - Irrespective of the person whether it is service recipient or service provider is liable to pay the service tax but so long the service tax was admittedly paid even by the recipient of the service, the Cenvat credit cannot be denied. This issue is no longer res Integra as this tribunal in following judgments for categorically hold that even though the portion of the service tax which was supposed to be paid by the some other person, so long the service tax was paid, the credit of said service tax cannot be denied to the recipient of service. - AT....