GST for travel agents, tour operators | Kashmir's travel trade bodies hold workshop

Srinagar, Jan 30: Kashmir’s Travel trade fraternity here on Monday organised a day-long workshop on Goods and Services Tax (GST) in which a large number of travel agents and tour operators participated.

Additional Commissioner Sales Tax Department Shakeel Maqbool(ICAS) was the keynote speaker who along with his team of officers provided detailed information to the travel agents and tour operators on GST.  The Additional Commissioner while appreciating the organisers for holding the workshop urged the participants to be responsible taxpayers and collaborate with the sales tax department.

He said the government doesn’t want to be in an enforcement mode and crackdown on tax evaders but handhold the responsible businessmen.

On the occasion, senior officials from the Sales Tax Department in a detailed powerpoint presentation explained various ways as to how a travel agent or a tour operator can work while charging GST on services and accordingly file the returns.

The event was jointly organised by travel trade associations including TASK, TAAK, AKTO, JKTA, PILTOF, TAAI-JK, ADTOI-JK, TAFI-JK.