Saturday, October 30, 2010

Air Travel - Taxed 2 The Max

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These were the taxes I paid on a round-trip flight Phoenix-Toronto:

Surcharges                                                     14.62 (probably an aviation fuel surcharge)
Canada Airport Improvement Fee                 25.00 (Pearson)
U.S.A Transportation Tax                               33.56
U.S Agriculture Fee                                         5.21
Air Travellers [sic] Security Charge                 8.34
U.S Passenger Facility Charge                        4.69
Canada Goods and Services Tax                    1.25
September 11 Security Fee                             2.61
U.S.A Immigration User Fee                           7.29

Whenever possible, I fly out of Buffalo. Half the cost and hassle of Pearson.

The neat thing about being government is a company, like an airline, has to work really, really hard to provide a service the public will pay for. If you are government, you can just come along and slap on a revenue-producing tax willy-nilly. You don't have to be good, or competent, or anything. Same thing with taxes on gasoline.
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2 comments:

sell timeshare said...

If you are government, you can just come along and slap on a revenue-producing tax willy-nilly.

Cheap flights to Boston said...

Thanks for the information..I really don't understand why the air travel tax is so much? The ticket is so expensive and then one had to pay tax also..

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