Maher Naseef, Head of Tourism Transport Committee, at Egyptian Travel Agents Association (ETAA), refused the new tax law announced by President Mohamed Morsi, which provides provide for imposing 10% tax on tourism transport.
Naseef has referred that the decision may influence 700 companies specialized in the tourism transport, emphasizing that the tourism transport has lost a lot since erupting the 25 Jan Revolution , its sector’s incomes declined by 60%.
He elaborated that imposing taxes on the tourism transport will lead to pushing the services’ prices up, as well as the diesel prices; consequently it will affect the tourism program during the tourism decline.
Naseef has affirmed that the tourism sector needs decreasing the sales taxes, which reach 45%.
