home business news hoteliers warn additional taxe risk sle s competitive edge in tourism hoteliers warn additional taxe risk sle s competitive edge in tourism -- competitive edge in global tourism with the proposed percent social security contribution taxe adding further burden on an industry which is trying to return to growth path after recording nearly zero -- “the hoteliers are already burdened with series of top line taxe and levies the top line social security contribution of percent is -- industry will lose its competitive edge in marketing the destination with such taxe and there is no doubt it will affect the anticipated tourist arrival growth in the country” the newlyelected the hotels -- in budget the government proposed to impose a percent taxe on companies with an annual turnover exceeding rs million titled -- shanthikumar appealed to the government to exempt the tourism sector from this proposed top line taxe given its contribution to critical foreign exchange earnings and being the worst affected industry from -- further he also renewed the industrye s longstanding request to abolish the one percent top line taxe charged exclusively on tourism businesses by local authorities