Cenvat Credit Confirmed for Essential Services in Plant Fabrication; 'Setting Up' Removal Not a Game-Changer per Core Definition.

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....Cenvat credit - input services or not - services in relation to fabrication of plant and machinery - any service which is covered under the means part of the definition, the credit cannot be denied even if, it does not appear in the inclusive part of the definition - without use of these services, the appellant could not have possibly manufactured the excisable goods. In this background, we do not find any merit in the argument of the Revenue that by deletion of word ‘setting up’ from the definition of input service any significant change has happened. - AT....