Houseboat owners asked to pay 18% GST from 2017

Thiruvananthapuram: Houseboat owners are in a fix as the state GST department has started demanding 18% GST to be paid with retrospective effect from 2017, even though the boat owners have been paying the tax at 5% all these years. State govt, in its notice to houseboat owners, said that there has been a misclassification and misrepresentation of taxable income. However, the boat owners have been…