Petitioner cannot absolve herself of liability to pay GST in place of service tax: HC

K. Himabindu V. TSRTC (Telangana High Court) The document as placed before this Court by the respondents also shows that in addition to the licence fee for each month as fixed under the agreement titled as ‘Deed of Licence’, the respondents were also charging service tax separately and the same was being paid by the petitioner without any demur or protest. Having regard to the fact that by the introduction of GST, the provision of Finance Act, 1994, under which service tax was levied, has been subsumed into the GST, it is not open for the petitioner to contend that demand of GST by the res...