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This was assured in the last hours by President Iván Duque, that He exalted that this measure is part of the General Tourism Law project, which has already been filed with Congress.
“We are coming to Congress to say let’s make a new tourism law, but a practical tourism law is not painting little birds in the sky, it is not just stating good intentions,” said Duque during his speech at the Social Dialogue ‘New Commitment for the Future of Colombia ‘, advanced in Cartagena de Indias.
According to the president, It seeks to reduce VAT for tourist packages and for passenger air transport. In addition, indefinitely adjust the special rate of 9% of income tax. (See also: “What a joy!”: La Puerta Falsa restaurant reopens and welcomes customers again)
The Government also reported that the project focuses significantly on sustainability criteria associated with strengthening the competitiveness of tourism activity.
Another important initiative has to do with the extension of the exemption payment to the energy surcharge for subsectors of hotels, amusement parks, theme parks and events.
“We had practically created the elimination of the energy surcharge for the tourism sector for this year, we are going to extend it for another year so that the sector can be reactivated and that means freeing the sector from hundreds of millions of pesos, of hundreds of billions of pesos, ”said the head of state.
The Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, José Manuel Restrepo, also referred to these measures included in the project and emphasized that they are initiatives that aim at the economic reactivation of the country.
“I dare to say that there is a package of fundamental measures in what has to do with the reactivation and, what has been said here, which is a response to SOS, is a clear response, punctual to what is said in SOS, seeking the integration of all the tools “, he specified.
“In this bill VAT remains on tickets from 19% to 5%, (…) It is a very important value to attract tourists here and throughout the country ”, declared Minister Restrepo.
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