RULE 4: REGISTRATION – Three categories of person liable to get themselves registered under service tax namely:-a. Service Provider of taxable services under section 69(1) b. Person responsible for making payment of service tax as specified in Rule 2 (1) (d) read with section 68. They shall also seek registration under section 69(1) of Chapter V of Finance Act, 1994
Conflicts are what make legislation difficult to understand and subject to multiple views. Though we are always seeking for decision from judiciary to guide us in clear manner but the same might come much later than what we expect. There exists conflict for a transaction under various legal frameworks like:
If we take the view that a claim which is wholly untenable in law and has absolutely no foundation on which it could be made, the assessee would not be liable to imposition of penalty, even if he was not acting bonafide while making a claim of this nature, that would give a licence to unscrupulous assessees to make wholly untenable and unsustainable claims without there being any basis for making them
This Statement of Facts as regards Centre of Excellence (COE) project at Nagpur is being issued for the general information of members in view of the ongoing discussion in public domain.
There is no cogency in the ground raised by the Revenue that Ld. Commissioner of Income Tax (A) has not duly afforded adequate opportunity to the Assessing Officer to consider the submissions and evidences filed before him at the appellate stage. The Ld. Commissioner of Income Tax (A) has duly sent the documents furnished by the assessee at the appellate stage to the Assessing Officer for a remand report.
