Wage Payments to Rural Workers Under MGNREGA Exempt from Service Tax Before July 2012, Tribunal Rules.

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....Classification of services - management and business consultant service - The tribunal held that the activity of disbursal of wages to the unskilled rural labours as a measure of employment generation under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), does not cover under “Management and Business Consultant” Services. Therefore, for the period prior to 01.07.2012, the appellants are not liable to pay service tax. - Merely because, there was an agreement and in terms of the agreement, the service tax was inclusive which is to be borne to the appellants, no demand of service tax can be sustained.....