Patel to take up service tax issue with MoF

New Delhi: The Ministry of Civil Aviation is to take up with the Finance Ministry the issue of levy of a 12.24 per cent service tax on first and business class issued here for international air travel.
"A number of international airlines apart from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and International Air Transport Association (IATA) have written to us on this matter. I will be taking up their concerns with the Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, and hopefully we should be able to find a solution," said the Minister for Civil Aviation, Praful Patel.
Patel was speaking to newspersons on the sidelines of the South Asia Travel and Tourism Exchange (SATTE) that opened here today.
22/04/06 Sify

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