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   Appeal no.       Period of          Demand             Category and Nature of         Findings on Facts of the case in
                    Dispute                                      Service                        Impugned Order



                                                        The Respondent / AIPL
                                                        supplements the functions
                                                        of Amadeus, Spain, by
                                                        preparing and transmitting
                                                        the locally generated travel
                                                        related data abroad for
                                                        incorporation           and
                                                        synthesis into their core
                                                        data base, so as to enable
                                                        the     Tour      Operators
                                                        [operating within India] to
                                                        access the information /
                                                        data stored in the core
                                                        computer system abroad
                                                        and to enable Amadeus,
                                                        Spain        to      access
                                                        information / data entered
                                                        by the Tour operators.
                                                        (Impugned Order at pg. 23-
                                                        30 of Paperbook Vol I).
                                                        There is no dispute that
                                                        the consideration for the
                                                        service is received by AIPL
                                                        in    convertible    foreign
                                                        exchange, from Amadeus
                                                        Marketing.
                                                        The Respondent/AIPL was
                                                        also deemed eligible for
                                                        exemption u/s 80HHE
                                                        [Deduction of profits from
                                                        export      of    computer
                                                        software] and later u/s
                                                        10A/10B [deduction of
                                                        profits and gains of a
                                                        100%     Export    Oriented
                                                        undertaking derived from
                                                        export                    of
                                                        articles/things/computer
                                                        software] of the Income
                                                        Tax Act, 1961.
C.A. No. 571-     01.07.2003 to   Rs. 32,88,68,402/-    Category III                   Findings on services rendered by
572/2016          31.03.2008      proposed in SCN for                                  Respondent company amounting
                                                        Business          Auxiliary
                                  period        from                                   to marketing and data processing
Commissioner of                   01.07.2003       to   Services:    Section     65
                                                        (105)(zzb) of the Finance      (Impugned Order at para 21 – pg.
Service Tax                       31.03.2008
                                                                                       47 of Paperbook Vol I)
Delhi IV                                                Act, 1994 – marketing and
                                  (Impugned Order at
v.                                                      distributing                   Services     provided by    the
                                  pg. 22 of Paperbook
M/S Acquire                                                                            Respondent company fall outside
                                  Vol I)                (Impugned Order at pg. 20
Services Pvt.                                                                          the scope of BAS
Ltd.                              OIO confirmed the     of Paperbook Vol I)
                                                                                       (Impugned Order at para 22 – pg.
                                  demand     of  Rs.
                                                                                       48 of Paperbook Vol I)
                                  2,56,05,193/-   for
                                  the   period  April




   Appeal no.       Period of            Demand               Category and Nature of           Findings on Facts of the case in
                    Dispute                                          Service                          Impugned Order



                                   2007 to March 2008      Interglobe       Enterprises      Information Technology services
                                                           established          Acquire      are provided by the Respondent
                                   (Impugned Order at
                                                           Services in India. As per         company which are excluded
                                   pg. 22 of Paperbook
                                                           the agreement between             component of BAS
                                   Vol I)
                                                           Interglobe    and      Galileo
                                                                                             (Impugned Order at para 24, 25 –
                                   Service tax demand      International USA, Acquire
                                                                                             pg. 49 of Paperbook Vol I)
                                   on extended period      was       marketing      and
                                   of   limitation set     distributing the hardware
                                   aside                   and software to Indian
                                                           travel agents to enable           Activities of Respondent company
                                   (Impugned Order at      them to connect to the            fall within the scope of Export of
                                   pg. 52 of Paperbook;    Galileo’s     host       CRS      Service Rules, 2005, there is no
                                   OIO at pg. 440 of       [Computer        Reservation      liability of service tax - relied on
                                   Paperbook Vol II)       System] in the US. CRS is         Paul Merchant
                                   Bifurcation       of    used for booking tickets to       (Impugned Order at para 26 – pg.
                                   demand (OIO at pg.      and from across the globe.        50 of Paperbook Vol I)
                                   443 of Paperbook Vol    Consideration      for    the
                                                           service is received in India      Entire Transaction explained from
                                   II)
                                                           by Acquire in foreign             Page 393 – Page 396.
                                                           currency.
C.A. No.          07/2003-09-      Demand            of    Category III                 Activities of Respondent company
10885/2016        2007             Rs.2,96,35,979 and                                   fall within the scope of Export of
                                                           Business          Auxiliary
                                   penalty           of                                 Service Rules 2005, there is no
                                                           Services: Section 65(19)(ii)
Commissioner of                    Rs.2,96,35,979 and                                   liability of service tax - relied on Paul
                                                           of the Finance Act, 1994 –
Service Tax                        Rs.1000.-     Money                                  Merchant
                                                           Advertise and Promote the
Delhi III                          Transfer        and
                                                           Money Transfer Service
v.                                 Related Service                                        (Impugned order at para 8, Pp.29-
M/s Transcorp                                                                             30 of Paperbook)
International
Ltd.
C.A. No.          2005-06     to   Order-in-Original       Category III                      Respondent is providing services to
3692/2017         2011-12 [Pg.     confirmed         the                                     overseas entities. [Impugned Order
                                                           Respondent is providing
                  D – Synopsis –   demand on three                                           at Para 3 – Pg. 6 of the Appeal
                                                           Business           Auxiliary
Commissioner of   Appeal           counts: (1) Export of                                     Paperbook]
                                                           Services to its foreign
Service Tax       Paperbook]       Service     –     Rs.
                                                           affiliate [Para 2 of Appeal       Services     provided    by    the
Delhi IV                           66,96,09,360/-; (2)
                                                           at Pg. 15 of the Appeal           Respondent qualifies under export
vs.                                Salary     paid    to
                                                           Paperbook].                       of service as per Rule 3 of Export
M/s Nortel                         Seconded employees

(i) voice mail, data services, audio tax services, video tax services, radio paging;

(ii) fixed telephone services including provision of access to arid use of the public switched telephone network for the transmission and switching of voice, data and video, inbound and outbound telephone service to arid from national and international destinations;

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(v) provision of call management services for a fee including call waiting, call forwarding, caller identification, three-way calling, call display, call return, call screen, call blocking, automatic call-back, call answer, voice mail, voice menus and video conferencing;

(vi) private network services including provision of wired or wireless telecommunication link between specified points for the exclusive use of the client;

(vii) data transmission services including provision of access to wired or wireless facilities and services specifically designed for efficient transmission of data; and