- विज्ञापन -
The Himachal state government has made many major changes to the Home Stay Rules 2025. Home stay operators will now have to compulsorily take GST number and file returns. The registration fee of homestay has been increased from Rs 100 to Rs 3000, 300 times more. The government will now increase its revenue with the Home Stay Scheme started to provide employment to the unemployed.
Under the Home Stay Rules, now the GST number will have to be given in the registration form itself. GST number will have to be written in column 14 of the form. Till now home stay operators were not required to take GST number. The government’s Home Stay Scheme was for unemployed people in rural areas, so the condition of GST on the lines of big businessmen was not in the scheme.
Now homestay operators will have to spend money to get GST number before registration and file GST returns every month. Whether there is income from home stay or not, people will have to visit chartered accountants to file GST returns. In the new provisions, arrangements will also have to be made for the disposal of garbage under municipal laws.
Fire fighting equipment will also have to be installed compulsorily in homestays. Complete records of guests visiting homestays will have to be kept in registers and computers. Passport details of foreign tourists will also have to be mandatorily recorded. It has also been made mandatory to install CCTV cameras in the common area of homestays. The government has notified the Home Stay Rules 2025 on February 14.
Regarding these, people can send their objections and suggestions to the Director of Tourism and Civil Aviation Himachal Pradesh by email [email protected] or through post till February 28.
