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Whether GST is payable on cancellation charges/ penalty/ liquidated damages ?
Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- yes
Held - The appellant had no choice of tolerating cancellation or not. The appellant has not chosen to tolerate the cancellation. The cancellation was in pursuance of the order of the Supreme Court and not as a result of a contract to tolerate cancellation. There was no consideration for tolerating the cancellation, only a compensation provided for statutorily for the investment made in the mines by the appellant.
Even in cases where an.....
Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no
Held - These damages are claimed by the applicant from the contractee due to the delays in making available possession of site, drawings & other schedules by the contractee beyond the milestones fixed for completion of project. These damages are consideration for tolerating an act or a situation arising out of the contractual obligation.
Further Section 2(31)(b) of the CGST Act mentions that consideration in relation to the supp.....
Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no
Held - The applicant has submitted that cancellation charges collected from the passengers may be shared with the owners or drivers. The activity of tolerating the cancellation by the applicant for a consideration is supply of service by virtue of clause (e) of para 5 of Schedule II of CGST Act, 2017 and attracts GST at 18 %.
.....Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- no
Held - The applicant has submitted that cancellationcharges collected from the passengers may be shared with the owners or drivers. We find that the activity of tolerating the cancellation by the applicant for aconsideration is supply of service by virtue of clause (e) of para 5 of Schedule II of CGST Act, 2017 and attracts GST at 18 %.
.....Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- yes
Held - The issue that arose for consideration in Lemon Tree Hotel Hotel was whether forfeiture of the amount received by a hotel from a customer on cancellation of the booking would be leviable to service tax under section 66E(e). The Tribunal held that the retention of the amount on cancellation would not attract service tax under section 66E (e)
A Division Bench of the Tribunal in K.N. Food Industries examined the.....
Issue Favourable to Tax Payer ?:- yes
Held - The appellant has stated that the amount of JPY 130,000,000/- was paid to compensate for the work undertaken by Honda Japan towards the commencement of volume production of the new Honda CIVIC Model and details have also been provided, which details clearly indicate that the amount was paid to compensate Honda Japan for the research and allied work it had performed at its end and not towards supply of any technical information to the ap.....











