Supreme Court of India

Commissioner of Service Tax Delhi v. Quick Heal Technologies Limited

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Reported as [2022] 17 S.C.R. 930
Bench Abhay S. Oka and J. B. Pardiwala JJ.
Decided 5 August 2022

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid, we have reached to the conclusion that the impugned order of the Tribunal suffers from no jurisdictional or any other legal infirmity warranting any interference at o ur end in the present appeal.

Judgment, page 38

From the headnote

Service Tax – Finance Act, 1994 – s.65(105)(zzzze) a nd 66E – Constitution of India –Art.366(29A) – Respondent (Assessee) engaged in supply of Quick Heal Antivirus Software license key/ code along with replicated CDs/DVDs in the retail p acks (i.e. Information Technology Software Service) through it s dealers/ distributors to the end customers in India –Content ion of revenue that transaction pertaining to software can be divi ded into two components (i) sale of CD, & (ii) supply of updates – Respondent argued that the transaction cannot be bifurcated in to two components – Held: Once a

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