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October 2023

Service Tax

By Puloma Dalal | Jayesh Gogri | Mandar Telang
Chartered Accountants
Reading Time 8 mins

I TRIBUNAL

18. M/s. ODC Logistics Pvt. Ltd. vs. CST 2023-TIOL-639-CESTAT-KOL

Date of Order: 23rd June, 2023

Order beyond the scope of SCN is legally unsustainable. The conclusion based on assumptions and conjectures cannot deprive the assessee of the credit.

FACTS

Appellant provided logistics services including transportation of goods. Of the two issues involved in the show cause notice (SCN), the first related to RCM liability under Goods Transport Agency (GTA) service for payments made to suppliers of lorries on hire, based on expenses booked in financial statements as “freight charges”. The appellant contended that the supplier had not issued a consignment note and hence legally, it was not liable to pay service tax. However, the adjudicating authority proceeded by examining the nature of income of the appellant for providing output transportation services and observed that by avoiding issuing consignment notes for rendering output services, it could not avoid service tax liability as the appellant earned freight income and based on the said observation, service tax on GTA service was confirmed. For this conclusion, the appellant’s submission was that besides traveling

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