State government devises a new definition soft music + alcohol = pub

Updated On: 28 November, 2012 06:56 AM IST | | Priyankka Deshpande

According to an amendment to the Bombay Entertainment Duty Act 1923, all eateries that serve liquor and play soft music will now be called a pub, and will also have to shell out hefty entertainment tax

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State government devises a new definition soft music + alcohol = pub

The district entertainment duty office has sent notices to 68 ‘pubs’ in the city asking them to pay entertainment tax after the state government reached a consensus on the definition of the word pub.u00a0The state government had passed a General Resolution (GR) in 2010, according to which permit rooms/beer bars with live orchestras and pubs have to mandatory pay entertainment tax.

Representation Pic/Krunal Gosavi