Service tax - Is 'high tea' a meal, satisfying and substantial?

Very interesting to read. I wish to share a point with the author that in the down-south in the good old days elderly people used to choose PALAGARAM [a substitute for the night dinner] in the late evening [after 7.00 p.m.] whenever they used to have a heavy lunch during certain festival or other religious ceremony days. When both the heavy lunch in the late afternoon [around 2.00 p.m. or so] and the PALAGARAM were to be weighed to-gether then the whole weight would equal the normal lunch and dinner whcih such elders used to have as a routine on normal days. So, if PALAGARAM is to be taken up for discussion then it may also be termed as something of a high-tea type. Now in the present [modern] day living, some hi-fi families get up late in the morning on holidays and sundays and choose to have a BRUNCH [something between a normal breakfast and a normal lunch]. This BRUNCH may also be equated with HIGH TEA TYPE. In my view lunch and dinner are commonly understood to be meals which are satisfying and substantial. Breakfast or PALAGARAM are not to be equated with normal lunch and comapred for the purpose of satisfying and substantial. They can only be understood as non-lunch or dinner items. Even in 5 star and above level hotels the Breakfast is arranged in buffet style where the guest is permitted to eat it as more of a BRUNCH type and the guest feels satisfied and feels that he has taken substantial intake. Many of friends and colleagues in service used to skip lunch by saying that they had a heavy breakfast in the hotel where they stayed.I am therefore inclined to agree with the observations made by Member J which was acceptable to Member T on a second thought. The matter needs to be ended here, because we have many more important issues to discuss in terms of law even in Service Tax matters. We are Indians and so we are brainy as well.==R. VENKATRAMAN, ex. G.M.[Excise and Customs] INDIANOIL

VENKATARAMAN RAGGHUPATHY 06/01/2009

 

The disscussion made on 'High Tea' is relevant but it is a very subjective term and have no end on Disscution of the same coz the 'Meal' substaintial or not is the vary term as per person. So let be finish the topic here.

chirayu kothi 06/01/2009