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2022 (8) TMI 146 - AAR - GSTExemption from GST - Pure services - supply of telecommunication services to local authority (Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation) - taxable u/s 9(1) of the CGST Act, 2017 and/or exempted vide Sr. No. 3 (Chapter 99) of Table mentioned in Notification No. 12/2017- Central Tax (Rate) dated 28 June 2017? - HELD THAT:- Under serial no. 3 of Notification No. 12/2017 pure services provided “in relation to any function” entrusted to a municipality under Article 243W of the Constitution of India is eligible for exemption from GST. Clearly the exemption should be directly related to the functions enumerated under Article 243W of the Constitution of India i.e., those functions listed under 12th schedule. Similarly the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in the case of HH. MAHARAJADHIRAJA MADHAV RAO JIWAJI RAOSCINDIA BAHADUR VERSUS UNION OF INDIA [1970 (12) TMI 87 - SUPREME COURT] observed that the expression “relating to” means to bring into relation or establish a relation. It was further clarified that there should be a direct and immediate link with a covenant and that there cannot be any independent existence outside such covenant. The applicant is providing data and voice services to GHMC and to the employees of the municipalities and there is no direct relation between the services provided by the applicant and the functions discharged by the GHMC under Article 243W read with schedule 12 to the Constitution of India. Therefore these services do not qualify for exemption under Notification No. 12/2017.
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