Tourism Ministry to conduct Study on Impact of Taxation on Tourism Sector

Indian Tour Operators are being discriminated as the export industry is exempted from Service Tax whereas the Tourism industry is not: IATO

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Union Tourism Minister Shri Chiranjeevi has announced that his Ministry will conduct comprehensive study on impact of taxation on tourism sector. Speaking to a delegation of the Executive Committee of Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) in New Delhi today the Minister said “The Ministry will immediately conduct the study of comparison of the impact of excessive taxes on Tourism Industry viz-a-viz Export Industry and also the comparative analysis on the tax structure on Indian Tourism Industry with the competing neighbouring countries”. 

Earlier during the meeting, the president of IATO Shri Subhash Goyal highlighted the problems and issues being faced by the tourism industry. The delegation requested the Tourism Minister that wherever Visa on Arrival is not possible, E.visa should be issued for travel to India.

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