Court Upholds Assessee's Consistent Accounting Method for Excluding Service Tax from Contract Receipts; Overturns CIT(A) Decision.

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....Addition on account of service tax that was collected but not paid - Grievance of the assessee that as he had not claimed any deduction of the amount of service-tax - Additions u/s 43B - no infirmity emerges from the accounting of the contract receipts by the assessee on the basis of exclusion method (i.e net of service-tax), which as observed by us hereinabove had consistently been followed by it since last many years. We, thus, in terms of our aforesaid observations set-aside the order of the CIT(Appeals) who had held that the accounting of the contract receipts by the assessee by adopting the exclusion method (i.e net of service-tax) was not proper. - AT....