Key legal question
Whether the foreign depot/custody services supplied by the parent company were a taxable service import against consideration
Extracted holding
The tax authority did not prove that the company paid consideration; the services were also shown to be ordinarily unpaid in comparable banking relationships, so no taxable exchange existed.
Extracted reasoning
Taxability requires an exchange of performance and consideration. The lower court's factual findings that no payment was shown and that comparable depot services are typically free were not clearly wrong.