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2010 (7) TMI 176 - AT - Service TaxScientific or Technical Consultancy Services - 65(105)(za) - service provider and client relationship - Held that: , in the implementation of the Governmental schemes, the assessee as implementing agency did not render any taxable "service" to the government. The department seems to be considering the Governments to be "clients" of APITCO. The question now is whether there was "service provider-client" relationship between the assessee and the governments. Here, again, the nature of the amounts paid by the governments to the assessee is decisive. A client must not only pay the expenses of the service but also the consideration or reward for the service to the service provider. Admittedly, in the present case, there was no payment, by any government to the assessee, of any amount in excess of what is called "grant-in-aid". Thus any service provider-client relationship between the assessee and the governments is ruled out. Many of the activities in question, such as micro-enterprises development, training programmes, project planning, infrastructure planning etc., are apparently in the nature of projects involving application of social science principles. The revenue has not shown that any techniques or principles of pure and applied sciences were applied in the implementation of the governmental schemes by the assessee.
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