Contractor's services for Defense optical fiber project exempt from service tax.

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....The High Court allowed the writ petition and issued a writ of certiorari quashing the impugned advance ruling dated 23 March 2018 passed u/s 28E of the Customs Act, 1962. The court held that the services provided by the petitioner to BSNL for implementation of the Optical Fibre Cable Network Project for the Defence Services, Government of India, were exempt from service tax under Entry 12A of the Mega Exemption Notification dated 20 June 2012 read with Section 102 of the Finance Act, 1994. Further, the notional services provided by the petitioner to BSNL were also exempt by virtue of Entry 29(h) of the said Notification, which exempts sub-contractors providing works contract services to another contractor providing works contract services.....