The Board vide Circular No. 113/07/2009-ST had laid down the procedure for carrying out detailed scrutiny of Service Tax Returns (ST-3) and had circulated a return scrutiny manual for Service Tax.
Before the amendment of the constitution by its (Forty-Sixth Amendment) by a series of subsequent decisions, the Supreme Court has, on the basis of the decision in Gannon Dunkerley’s case, held various other transactions which resemble, in substance, transactions by way of sales, to be not liable to sales tax.