Adtoi Organises Interactive Session On Service Tax With Sr. Officials Of Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax
{ 20th April 2005 }

Association of Domestic Tour Operators of India (ADTOI) organised an inter-active session on Service Tax for the benefit of its members with the Sr. officials of Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax Officials in their General House Meeting on 20th April 2005 at Ashok Hotel.

Mrs. Nisha Malhotra, Chief Commissioner and Mr. Bipin Sapra, Joint Commissioner, Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax participated in the Session. The session was arranged by ADTOI with a view to understand the implications and applicability of the provisions of Service Tax rules related to Travel & Tourism Industry. Since the issue was common to Travel Trade fraternity, members from other Travel Trade Association like TAAI, TAFI, IATO, ATOAI were also invited to participate. The session was attended by large audience from all sections that were keen to interact with the Service Tax officials.

Welcoming Mrs. Nisha Malhotra, Chief Commissioner and Mr. Bipin Sapra, Joint Commissioner, Mr. Mukesh Jagga, President, ADTOI, thanked the Hon'ble guests for sparing their valuable time to participate in the Session for the benefit Travel Trade Fraternity. The session was moderated by Mr. Sanjay Saxena, General Secretary and Mr. Rajiv Varma, member, ADTOI who had provided to all participants with a list of points for discussions in the meeting. Members addressed their questions on the applicability of service tax to service providers of Travel Trade Fraternity for clarifications. The Chief Commissioner and Joint commissioner after hearing the members provided the requisite interpretations to the issues raised. Though the session was quite meaningful and purposeful the Travel Fraternity present at the meeting requested the Chief Commissioner to further enlighten them by organising half day/full day work shop on Service Tax within the next one or two weeks. Appreciating the concern of the members the Chief Commissioner thanked the President, ADTOI for arranging such a session for the benefit of service providers and assured that the Department would look into the matter and extend their support in organising a workshop for the benefit of members in the near future.

Earlier Mr.Vijay K. Saluja, Advisor, TAFCON made an impressive audio-visual presentation for the benefit of members present on adventure tourism on the occasion of forthcoming Mountaineering & Tourism Meet 2005 being organised by Himalayan Environment Trust at Mussoorie from 26th to 28th May 2005.