A restaurant in Jubilee Hills has been instructed to reimburse a customer with Rs 3000 after wrongly charging a service tax of Rs 247 following the customer’s visit in October last year.
The customer, a real estate businessman, Harish Kumar Goud, had dined at the Chiguru Restaurant located in a posh locality in Jubilee Hills, Road No 36, with his clients, where a bill of Rs 3116 was generated.
On receiving the bill, the customer noticed Service Tax Optional (ST OPT 10%) charges of Rs 274.90. He immediately called the waiter and demanded a refund citing it as an illegal practice.