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Your meals at restaurants are much costlier than the USA, UK and China. Here's why

Jan 17, 2017, 16:51 IST

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Everybody loves eating out. Though a price sensitive market, Indians love splurging when it comes to food. Eating delicious meal is one thing but then contributing to the exchequer is another. Did you realize in India, when you step into a restaurant that has an AC, you pay so many taxes. Well after a good meal, you hate mathematics. But then if you have sipped your whiskey like a boss and munched on tacos, you would require to pay 31% of tax. Yes! 31%.

So if you and your friends ate, drank and gone merry and the bill was Rs 6000, adding the taxes would inflate it to Rs 7,800.
While you earn a burn in your pocket, the similar kind of people in the USA, UK or China don’t pay like us.

True story.

Here’s how much people who dine out in the States, UK and China pay taxes when eating out.

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