my company has engaged a caterer for serving meal/snacks to our employee from 01.04.05 till date .till 31.03.2007 caterer did not take service tax registration no. and did not pay service tax to department on sum received from our company. from 01.04.2008 caterer discharged his liability of service tax after getting service tax registration no. now caterer has received a demand of Rs. 7 lacs and caterer has written a letter to our company for reimbersment of the same as he had not claimed service tax earlier in his bill. now i want to know 1)can we take cenvat credit of the amount if we paid to caterer even if he was not registered with service tax department during provision of service to our company and not eligible for claiming service tax from our company
Cenvat credit of the amount paid to caterer
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