Advance Ruling — The applicant, seeking an advance ruling in respect of the following question:

The Applicant requests this Authority to decide as to whether the aforesaid services proposed to be rendered qualify as Export of Services” under Section 2(6) of the Integrated Goods & Services Tax Act, 2017 or not.

In view of the provision under section 2(6) of IGST ACT laid down in respect of export of services and above discussed provision laid down in section 97(2) of the CGST Act, 2017 encompassing the specific questions, which are sought under advance ruling, it can decisively be inferred that the questions raised by the respondent before Advance Ruling Authority were beyond the scope and jurisdiction of Advance Ruling, and hence do not warrant any ruling thereon”.

We also find that Appellate Authority of Advance Ruling, Maharashtra State (AAAR) has taken the same views on the similar matters before them namely, M/s. Micro Instrument (Mrs.Vishakha Prashant Bhave), vide appeal order no. MAH/AAAR/SS-RJ/26/2018-19 dated 22.03.2019, M/s. Sabre Travel Network India Pvt. Ltd., vide appeal Order No. MAH/AAAR/SS-RJ/30/2018-19 dated 10.04.2019, M/s. Asahi Kasei Pvt. Ltd., vide appeal Order No. MAH/AAAR/SS-RJ/01/2019-20 dated 19.06.2019, and in the case of M/s. Segoma Imaging Technologies India Pvt Ltd, vide appeal order no. MAH/AAAR/SS-RJ/28/2018-19 dated 03.04.2019.

Relying on the abovementioned decisions of the Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling (AAAR) and in view of the provisions of Section 97 of the CGST Act, 2017, we find that this authority is not allowed to answer the subject question. — Mayank Vinodkumar Jain, In Re… [2020] 20 TAXLOK.COM 097 (AAR-Maharashtra)