GST on offshore hotel bookings legislation (August 2018)

The Accommodation Association strongly supports the Australian Government making it unlawful for online travel agencies to impose price-parity clauses on tourism accommodation businesses in Australia, and the introduction of measures which ensure that large, offshore-based online travel agencies pay their fair share of taxation in Australia. The Accommodation Association of Australia opposes any legislative change whereby the burden of additional tax is passed back to bricks-and-mortar accommodation businesses which are located in Australia.