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More Than Half Of Phuket Hotels Avoid Room Tax


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More than half of Phuket hotels avoid room tax

PHUKET: -- The provincial administration of Thailand's southern resort province of Phuket yesterday urged hoteliers to stump up money owed in room tax, revealing that although the province had earned Bt47 million in room tax last year, over half of the island's hotels had still failed to cough up the cash.

Mrs. Anchalee Wanich Thepbutr, the president of the Phuket provincial administrative organization, said that a huge number of hotels were failing to pay the 1 percent commission on the price of each hotel room to the local authorities.

Collected on the tenth of each month, the fee is used by the province to upgrade existing tourism destinations and develop new ones, as well as organize tourism events and improve tourist facilities, including the beach lifeguard service.

Last year the province collected over Bt47 million in room tax from around 223 hotels, but over 200 hotels have still failed to pay.

-- TNA 2004-12-09

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