APPLICABILITY OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE EXPORT OF SERVICES RULES, 2005 IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS
It is an accepted legal principle that the law has to be read harmoniously so as to avoid contradictions within legislation. Keeping this principle in view, the meaning of the term 'used outside India' has to be understood in the context of the characteristics of a particular category of service as mentioned in sub-rule (1) of rule 3.
For example
For example
- under Architect service (a Category I service [Rule 3(1)(i)], even if an Indian architect prepares a design sitting in India for a property located in U.K. and hands it over to the owner of such property having his business and residence in India, it would have to be presumed that service has been used outside India
- if an Indian event manager (a Category II service [Rule 3(1)(ii)] arranges a seminar for an Indian company in U.K. the service has to be treated to have been used outside India because the place of performance is U.K. even though the benefit of such a seminar may flow back to the employees serving the company in India.
For the services that fall under Category III [Rule 3(1) (iii)], the relevant factor is the location of the service receiver and not the place of performance. In this context, the phrase 'used outside India' is to be interpreted to mean that the benefit of the service should accrue outside India. Thus, for Category III services [Rule 3(1)(iii)], it is possible that export of service may take place even when all the relevant activities take place in India so long as the benefits of these services accrue outside India. In all the illustrations mentioned above, what is accruing outside India is the benefit in terms of promotion of business of a foreign company. Similar would be the treatment for other Category III [Rule 3(1)(iii)] services as well.
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