{"id":361246,"date":"2025-09-23T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=361246"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:01:17","slug":"damages-for-dispute-settlement-not-declared-service-cestat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2025\/09\/23\/damages-for-dispute-settlement-not-declared-service-cestat\/","title":{"rendered":"Damages received for dispute settlement of agreement to sell, not taxable as \u2018declared service\u2019 under S. 66-E(e) of Finance Act, 1994: CESTAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Customs, Excise &amp; Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, Delhi:<\/span> In appeals filed against the orders passed by Commissioner (Appeals), CGST, the two-member Bench of Binu Tamta (Judicial Member) and<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> P.V. Subba Rao (Technical Member)<\/span> allowed the appeals and held that damages received for settlement of dispute of an agreement to sell, did not amount to a &#8216;Declared Service&#8217; under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001550208\" target=\"_blank\">66-E(e)<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000065759\" target=\"_blank\">Finance Act, 1994<\/a> (&#8216;Finance Act&#8217;).<\/p>\n<h3>Background:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The appellants were registered with service tax department for providing services of renting immovable property service and have been paying service tax on the rental income. On 17-7-1987, landowners signed agreements with the appellants to sell land. The appellants also paid earnest money to the sellers. Thereafter, landowners sold land to other people. The appellants filed suit and later settled the matter with the landowners and were paid settlement amount of Rs. 4.5 crores each.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Revenue-respondent submitted that the amount received by the appellants was liable to service tax under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001550208\" target=\"_blank\">66-E(e)<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000065759\" target=\"_blank\">Finance Act<\/a>. Thereafter, Show Cause Notices were issued to the appellants demanding service tax. The Proposal in the Show Cause Notices were confirmed by the Joint Commissioner in his Orders in Original which decisions were upheld in the orders, challenged in these three appeals.<\/p>\n<h3>Analysis, Law and Decision:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Tribunal stated that as per Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001550202\" target=\"_blank\">66<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000065759\" target=\"_blank\">Finance Act<\/a>, service tax was payable on taxable services rendered, which were listed in various clauses of Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001550199\" target=\"_blank\">65(105)<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000065759\" target=\"_blank\">Finance Act<\/a>. Thereafter, significant changes were made to the Finance Act in 2012 and all services except those in the negative list and especially those which were &#8216;Declared Services&#8217; became exigible to service tax. Service tax had to be certainly paid on the &#8216;Declared Services&#8217; under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001550208\" target=\"_blank\">66-E<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000065759\" target=\"_blank\">Finance Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The definition of &#8216;Service&#8217; in accordance with Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001550201\" target=\"_blank\">65-B(44)<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000065759\" target=\"_blank\">Finance Act<\/a> had three parts, the main part, an inclusion part and an exclusion part. The main part of the definition says service meant any activity carried out by a person for another for consideration. This definition was enlarged by the inclusion part of the definition &#8216;and includes declared services&#8217;. Therefore, if something was a Declared Service, even if it did not fall within the scope of the main part of the definition, it would still be &#8216;service&#8217;. The exclusion part of the definition then narrowed the scope of the term by excluding certain services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Tribunal while looking at the scope of &#8216;Declared Services&#8217; under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001550208\" target=\"_blank\">66-E<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000065759\" target=\"_blank\">Finance Act<\/a>, noted that Clause (e) read as &#8216;agreeing to the obligation to refrain from an act, or to tolerate an act or a situation, or to do an act.&#8217; The Tribunal noted that memorandum of settlement was signed by the appellants with the landowners and they received an amount for settlement. The Tribunal held that the settlement was not an agreement by itself but was only settlement of the dispute which had arisen out of an earlier agreement. The amount received by the appellants was only damages for reneging on the agreement to sell and clearly not an agreement to tolerate any act or situation. The Tribunal further held that it was beyond the scope of Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001550208\" target=\"_blank\">66-E(e)<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000065759\" target=\"_blank\">Finance Act<\/a> and was not a Declared Service and the demand of service tax on appellants could not be sustained. The appeals were allowed and the impugned orders were set aside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\">Ajay Kumar Sood v. Commr. (CGST), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/0qlNH6C4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 SCC OnLine CESTAT 2965<\/a>, decided on: 1-9-2025<\/span>]<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Advocates who appeared in this case:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For Appellant (s):<\/span> A.K. Batra and Sakshi Khanna, Chartered Accountants<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For Respondent(s):<\/span> Rajeev Kapoor and Suresh Nandanwar, Authorised Representative<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">A settlement of dispute is clearly not an agreement to tolerate any act or situation. It is beyond the scope of Section 66-E(e) of the Finance Act, 1994 and thus not a &#8216;declared service&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67528,"featured_media":361254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[33522,89641,89643,6651,2728,89644,89642,34483,86802],"class_list":["post-361246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-tribunals_commissions_regulatorybodies","tag-agreement-to-sell","tag-binu-tamta-member-judicial-and-p-v-subba-rao-member-technical","tag-breach-of-agreement","tag-cestat","tag-compensation","tag-damages-for-dispute-settlement-not-declared-service","tag-declared-service","tag-finance-act-1994","tag-service-tax-demand"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - 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