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TIOL-DDT 752 · Friday, 30 November 2007 · story 5 of 6

But a few questions!

By Vijay Kumar

1. Why this piecemeal exemption?

2. Why all services used for exports can't be exempted?

3.Why is it that the most obvious service used for exports – Custom House Agents service not exempted?

Incidentally, the FM told Parliament that notifications are being issued and immediately after the FM's speech, the PIB issued a PRESS RELEASE and announced that Notification No.115/2007-Customs, notifications No. 42/2007-Service Tax and 43/2007-Service Tax all dated 29th November, 2007 are available on the CBEC website http://www.cbec.gov.in .

I write this at 3 am today and I have just checked the CBEC website and the notifications are nowhere in site (pun intended)! And strangely the PIB site has those notifications. Obviously PIB knows the value of news, which is not the case with CBEC.