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Old Sep 27, 2019, 9:36 am
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
I'm expecting hotels to jack up their room rates since the hotels know what they were able to charge customers inclusive of the 28% tax. In other words, I expect much of this tax break to eventually be a tax break for hotels that mostly doesn't get passed onto hotel customers.
keep in mind though that the hotel industry was hurting because of the 28% tax & often were forced to keep their room rates below inr 7.5k to fill up the rooms....

while they may be able to take some advantage of this situation, its shouldn't be as rampant as one might assume....
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