Assignment of complete GIDC leasehold rights is transfer of immovable property, not a GST-taxable supply of services.

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....Assignment of a lessee's entire long-term leasehold rights in a GIDC plot, including rights in land and building, constitutes a transfer of benefits arising from immovable property rather than a supply of services under GST law. Unlike GIDC's original grant of a long-term lease, assignment to a third-party assignee transfers the lessee's complete right and interest. Applying the Supreme Court order in Gujarat Chamber of Commerce, Industries & Ors., the High Court treated the assignment as outside GST and quashed the show cause notice that had proposed to tax it as a service.....