Service Tax Not Applicable Without Express Agreement for Consideration, Demand Set Aside: Clarification Issued.

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....Levy of service tax - agreeing to the obligation to refrain from an act or to tolerate an act or a situation, or to do an act - The Circular emphasizes that there has to be an express or implied agreement to do or abstain from doing something against payment of consideration for a taxable supply to exist and such an act or a situation cannot be imagined or presumed to exist merely because there is a flow of money from one party to another - Demand set aside - AT....