No Service Tax exemption to Film Actors; HC dismisses PIL

In this case Petition was filed  under Article 226 of the Constitution of India,  praying for the issuance of a writ of Declaration, declaring that Notification No.25/2012 dated 20.06.2012 (Entry 16) in so far as it provides for an exemption in respect of services provided by a performing artist in folk or classical art forms of music, dance or theatre from service tax leviable under Section 66-B of the Finance Act 1994 as discriminatory and violative of Articles 14 and 19(1)(g) of the Constitution of India in the absence of the same benefit being extended to other performing artist namely f...