Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1187 · Decided 24 October 2019
Union of India v. Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India ETC.ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1187 · [2019] 16 S.C.R. 672
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6328/2015
- Decided
- 24 October 2019
- Bench
- ARUN MISHRA, S. ABDUL NAZEER, M.R. SHAH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 39; Companies Act Section 3, 211(3A), 211; Income Tax Act Section 80
Headnote
Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 - Licence Agreement granted by the Govt. of India to the Telecom Service Providers - Definition of gross revenue- Telecom sector liberalized in 1994- Licenses issued to the service fee payable every year - Since, fixed license fee was very high an option was given to the licensees to migrate from fixed licence fee to revenue sharing fee in 1999 - 15% Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) was fixed as license fee which was reduced to 8% in 2013 - Service
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