Whats the story with air travel taxes?
Up until the 1990’s, taxes and airport security charges were only payable in a handful of countries. These were collected by very bored looking people who sat in little Perspex windowed kiosks in airports around the world. One by one, during the course of the nineties, other countries first started making these charges, and then decided to make them payable on the airline tickets. Whilst there are still a few countries in which your taxes are collected in the old fashioned way ( New Zealand , Rarotonga and China for example), these days, you pay most of your taxes up front with your air fare. See here for a list of countries where you currently have to make some sort of payment on departure. We update this list from time to time, but please bear in mind that there aren’t any governments in the world who think to send travel agents a quick email to let them know that they have changed a locally collectable tax, so if you do come across any taxes that differ to the above, please do let u
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