No luxury tax for delegates at NRIs meet

No luxury tax for delegates at NRIs meet


Delegates attending the Pravasi Bhartiya Divas, which is scheduled to be held in the city from January 7 to 9, have been exempted from
paying luxury tax during their stay in star hotels here during the course of the event. The Pravasi Bhartiya Divas is being organised by the union ministry of overseas Indian affairs. According to a government order issued by the Tamil Nadu commercial taxes and registration department, the delegates will be exempted from paying luxury tax in hotels.
The state government has asked the ministry of overseas Indian affairs to "provide a detailed list of delegates or guests for the 'Pravasi Bhartiya Divas, 2009' room wise and hotel wise along with period of their stay and tariff paid in such hotels, so as to ascertain the exact amount of luxury tax on which exemption is to be allowed." In addition, the overseas Indian affairs ministry has to issue a certificate to the respective hotels along with the list of delegates or guests and such hotel shall endorse this list and the details of bills raised by it in respect of the delegates or guests who stayed in their hotel, to substantiate the amount for exemption from luxury tax along with the return of the concerned month or quarter in the form as prescribed under the Tamil Nadu Tax on Luxuries Rules, 1980.
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