10th September, 2004

Notification No. 17/2004-Service Tax

            In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the taxable service provided by the holder of intellectual property right to any person, in relation to intellectual property service, from so much of the service tax leviable thereon under section 66 of the said Act, as is equivalent to the amount of cess paid towards the import of technology under the provisions of section 3 of the Research and Development Cess Act, 1986 (32 of 1986) in relation to such intellectual property service.

F. No. B2/8/2004-TRU

V. Sivasubramanian
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India