Cost Petroleum in Production Sharing Contracts Not Considered Taxable Service Consideration, Says Ruling on Government Contracts.

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....Consideration for the services - Valuation - Mining services - whether entitlement towards “Cost Petroleum” under the “Production Sharing Contract” can be treated as “consideration” for rendering “mining services” to the Government of India? - From the provisions of the Production Sharing Contract it is clear that Cost Petroleum and Profit Petroleum cannot be said to be consideration flowing from the Government of India to the appellant and that the components of “Cost Petroleum” and “Profit Petroleum” are inherent and embedded part of the Production Sharing Contract. - Demand set aside - AT....