Whether assisting and providing of hotel bookings and guest houses for pilgrims exempted from tax?
TRT-2026-629

Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no

Held - There is no doubt that the petitioner is running guest houses by whatever name they are called whether it is a shelter for pilgrims or any other name. There is no dispute that it has been running these guest houses for a considerable time. Under these circumstances, the petitioner is liable to have itself registered for payment of service tax. We find no error in the view taken by the respondents in this regard.

We find no merit i.....