2009 (1) TMI 812

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..... submitted by the learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner that the petitioner is a service provider and accordingly it is paying service tax to the Union of India and as the petitioner is not liable to pay any tax under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Value Added Tax Act, 2005 (for short, "the Act"). It has been further submitted that according to the law laid down by th .....

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..... d the recovery proceedings on a condition that the petitioners pay one-third of the amount of tax payable by them. He has, therefore, submitted that at least one-third of the amount of tax payable should be paid by the petitioner. The learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner has drawn our attention to an interim order dated September 29, 2008 passed by the honourable Supreme Court in S .....

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..... learned senior counsel for the petitioner is true so far as not treating earlier orders as precedent because, interim orders are normally not treated as precedents. However, the fact remains that if this court has protected all similarly situated petitioners on a particular condition, we would not like to digress from the said practice more particularly in view of the fact that the petitions are .....

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