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Booking Foreign Speakers Not ‘Event Management’: Supreme Court Quashes Service Tax Demand on Leadership Summit Fees

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The Supreme Court has held that fees paid for booking eminent foreign speakers for an event cannot be taxed as “event management service” under the Finance Act, 1994. The bench of Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice K.V. Viswanathan has observed that booking a speaker is not the same as managing an event. The statutory definition…

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Mariya Paliwala
Mariya Paliwalahttps://www.jurishour.in/
Mariya is the Senior Editor at Juris Hour. She has 7+ years of experience on covering tax litigation stories from the Supreme Court, High Courts and various tribunals including CESTAT, ITAT, NCLAT, NCLT, etc. Mariya graduated from MLSU Law College, Udaipur (Raj.) with B.A.LL.B. and also holds an LL.M. She started her career as a freelance tax reporter in the leading online legal news companies.

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