2023 (4) TMI 1135

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.... Excise, Chennai. 2. Shri K.A. Parthasarathi, Learned Advocate, appeared for the appellant and Smt. K. Komathi, Learned Additional Commissioner, appeared for the respondent. 3.1 A perusal of the Show Cause Notices reveals that the Internal Audit Group of the Service Tax Commissionerate, Chennai had conducted an audit of accounts of the appellant wherein they appeared to have noticed that the appellant had not been paying Service Tax under Construction of Complex Service ('CCS' for short). A Show Cause Notice dated 21.10.2010 came to be issued wherein it is observed that "... the assessee has undertaken construction of 128 flats in Rani Meyyammai Towers, Phase II which was started during November, 2006, through M/s. South India Corpora....

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....tisfied with the same, the impugned common Order-in-Original Nos. 10 & 11/2013 dated 19.06.2013 has been passed, wherein the demands proposed in the Show Cause Notices, inter alia, of Service Tax under CCS for the periods from February 2007 to June 2010 and July 2010 to March 2011, have been upheld. It is against this common Order-in-Original that the present appeals have been filed before this forum. 6. The Learned Advocate for the appellant would submit, at the outset, that the demand confirmed under CCS in the impugned order does not survive as the same has been settled by the judgement of the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Commissioner of C.Ex. & Cus., Kerala v. M/s. Larsen & Toubro Ltd. [2015 (39) S.T.R. 913 (S.C.)], which decisi....

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....e buyers, that, in essence, they were rendering works contract service in the construction of flats and this aspect has not been denied by the Revenue either in the Show Cause Notices or in the impugned order. 10.1 The CESTAT, Chennai Bench in the case of M/s. Real Value Promoters Pvt. Ltd. (supra) has, following the dictum of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in M/s. Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (supra), held that in respect of projects executed prior to 01.06.2007, being in the nature of composite works contract, could not be brought within the fold of commercial or industrial construction service or construction of complex service and for the period post 01.06.2007, the liability to Service Tax could be fastened only if the activities were in the nat....