SC notice to Jet & Thomas Cook on AAI plea

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to Jet Airways, Flemingo Duty Free Shops and Thomas Cook India on a plea filed by Airports Authority of India (AAI) seeking transfer of petitions related to the imposition of service tax on airport services to the Delhi High Court.
These companies had challenged levy of service tax in the high courts of Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. The high courts had stayed the recovery notices issued by the Authority.
A bench comprising Justice B N Agrawal and Justice PP Naolekar issued notice to various parties including Jet, Flemingo, Thomas Cook, Siddhi Vinayak Enterprises among others asking them to explain why the petitions should not be transferred to Delhi High Court.
According to the petition, airport services were brought under the ambit of service tax from September 2004 by the Finance Act 2004. AAI was the only medium which collected service tax and deposited it with service tax department.
21/04/07 Economic Times

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