Export Cargo Handling Services Deemed 'Excluded,' Not 'Exempted' u/r 2(e) of CENVAT Credit Rules, Affecting Taxability.

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....CENVAT Credit of Service Tax paid - exempt services or not - the services rendered by the appellant in this case, insofar as the same related to the handling of export cargo, is excluded from taxability and thus, the same cannot be brought as ‘exempted’ under Rule 2(e) ibid. Once it is held as ‘excluded’, there is also no scope to consider the same as an ‘exempted’ service just for the purposes of Rule 6 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004. - AT....