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Friday, Sep 01, 2006

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Uniform service tax favoured

Staff Reporter

1,500 travel, tourism operators, representatives of State Tourism Boards to attend TAAI meet beginning today

Multiple taxation creating problems: Kakkar
Need for infrastructure upgradation stressed

India accounts for less than 1 per cent of global tourism industry

HYDERABAD: Indian Travel Congress, the 55th convention and exhibition of the Travel Agents' Association of India (TAAI) beginning here on Friday, will focus on the need for a uniform goods and service tax (GST) structure across the country.

At a curtain raiser to the conference with the theme `The future is now,' TAAI president Ashwini Kakkar said on Thursday that the demand was significant coming from an industry that globally involved $ 5 trillion and given the enormous potential of travel and tourism in India. Multiple taxation was creating problems and the need for a GST was being felt, he said.

Other issues to figure at a convention are infrastructure upgradation keeping in mind the future and implementation of visa-on-arrival facility

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