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IATO hails govt decision to scrap TCS on sale of overseas tour packages

New Delhi, August 19 (UNI) Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) on Friday welcomed the government's decision to withdraw five per cent tax collected at source (TCS) charged on sale of overseas tour packages to foreign tour operators.

The tax was earlier withdrawn only for individual foreign tourists.

The government had recently announced removal of tax, both on individual foreign tourists as well as foreign tour operators (FTO’s).

The removal would make the tour packages offered by Indian tour operators to foreigners a bit cheaper and would help provide some succor to the pandemic ravaged sector, a statement from IOTA said.

''Lot of foreigners book overseas tour packages for neighbouring countries like Bhutan, Nepal and Maldives through Indian Tour Operators. But since there was a levy, they preferred booking the tours directly with tour operators in those countries as there was no such charge there,'' the statement said.

Rajiv Mehra, President, IATO, “The impact of this notification is that both foreign individuals and FTOs (buyers) buying overseas tour packages from the Indian Tour Operators will be exempt from TCS provisions. It is not necessary that the foreign tourist should visit India for an onward journey to the neighbouring country. Secondly, the FTO / Corporate entity established in foreign country and not maintaining any permanent establishment / branch in India would also be exempted from TCS provisions.”

"Indian tour operators were losing a lot of clients because of this tax, besides the govt. was losing precious foreign exchange as the entire money was going to the other countries. We represented the Finance Ministry on this and they found merit in our plea and thereby announced the withdrawal. We express our gratitude to the Finance Ministry and Tourism Ministry for this,” he said.
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