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from daijiworld's special correspondent Panaji, Jan 16: Goa is getting expensive for the leisure seekers every year.Excessive taxation, triggered by VAT, has forced Goa's hotel industry to hike tarriffs by 25 per cent in the past couple of years making the coastal state an expensive destination , feel tourism experts. "While Goa has witnessed growth in tourism, concerns are raised on pricings as it is competing with southeast Asian countries, which are much cheaper holiday zones," travel and tourism Association of Goa (TTAG) president Ralf D'Souza said.Hospitality industry players feel that Value Added Tax (VAT) regime in Goa has overburdened the industry, which is forced to pass on the extra liability to clients. "Three years back, VAT was implemented in Goa. Earlier the industry was governed by sales tax, which was 5.5 per cent. But VAT scaled the tax to 12.5 per cent," D'Souza said."20 per cent VAT was imposed on liquor furtherhiking the prices," he said.He observed that luxury tax too witnessed a jump from 5.75 to 8.75 per cent."There was total 17 per cent hike in taxes. Hoteliers added seven to eight per cent of their own jacking prices by 25 per cent," he said.
No organised criminal gangs in Goa, says DIG Panaji, Jan 16 The deputy inspector-general of police, Mr Ujjwal Mishra today said that there could be some criminal gangs operating from outside Goa but there are no organised gangs in Goa. Speaking to ‘The Navhind Times’, the DIG said, “These gangsters come, stay temporarily, commit crimes and then go back to their native places.” The “real” and well-organised gangs come from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and other areas, he disclosed. He informed that “white-collar crimes” are being replaced by “blue-collar crimes’’. Cheating has become better form of making fast bucks. Banks offer huge loans and people with criminal mind do not bother to pay the banks back. There are big complicated loan frauds. So the police find it very difficult to apprehend the accused and bring him to justice, the DIG said Mr Mishra stated that earlier criminals used to resort to ‘physical’ methods like robbery, snatching of goods, kidnapping. However, now the time has changed. Giving an example of rise in blue-collar crimes, he said that Anthony Britto, who was engaged in procuring sex workers and supplying them through a chain, used to get calls from hoteliers, nightclub owners and taxi operators. When the police arrested Anthony -- and his associates – he revealed that he used to procure these sex workers from Delhi, Calcuta, Mumbai. He said this was altogether a different type of crime. |
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