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This point was already approved jointly by the sixth committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives, which also It has already approved another 12 articles of the 30 that the bill has with which it seeks to reactivate tourism, according to Blu Radio.
VAT reduction from 19% to 5%, in addition to being applied to the price of air tickets, it would also be taken into account in related services and the administrative fee associated with the sale of tickets, indicated Congressman Horacio José Serpa, as read below:
Great news for travelers!
Approved in joint sixth commissions of @SenadoGovCo Y @CamaraColombia the reduction in VAT from 19% to 5% on air tickets, additional services (luggage, pets, etc.) and the administrative fee (marketing).
Plenary missing! pic.twitter.com/uQ2uAiLXvE
– Horacio José Serpa (@HoracioJSerpa) October 26, 2020
The bill, filed by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism – and which has an urgent message from the Government to be discussed in Congress – also provides that next year the bars and restaurants will have an impoconsumption of 0%, said the minister of the aforementioned portfolio, José Manuel Restrepo, in the ‘Prevention and action’ program.
Likewise, El Espectador points out, the tourism law exempts, by 2021, hotels, hostels and other types of accommodation from paying the surcharge in the electricity sector.
The project also seeks to encourage “figures such as tourist control points, which may serve as a mechanism for managing the limits established for tourist sites or attractions, according to sustainability criteria,” added the Government.
Restrepo added in the debate, cited by RCN Radio, that there are other benefits such as “the possibility of two more years to comply with the construction in the benefit of 9% of the income tax.”
The tourism project will be discussed in three other debates.
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