Departure Tax? Just another Scam?
 

Keep paying departure taxes. I asked a reservations agent one time to break down the taxes to me. Does not make any sense. From my understanding, it is Congress who approves taxes for the aiports (in the US). Also, (in the US) don't airports collect taxes through city sales taxes? If so, wouldn't taxing passengers then by another illegal tax? Could someone explain all of this. I think the departure taxes, even on regular passengers is a scam.

Albeit a little terse, Rainboe does have a point. We Brits find being taxed more than once for the same thing rather like our weather; character building.

You will now notice that Rainboe has removed his Post, thus making my Post look dafter than normal!

They can tax you what they like. They can tax your income, your house, your car, your water and when you die, they can tax what you had left and hadn't spent on toys while you could. why are you grumbling about Airport Taxes? Welcome to the world of the Inland Revenue. May I introduce you to our friend over here Master Gordon Brown? We know him simply as 'Robber'. Would you take him over there? He's very nice- he smiles a lot, but you can see it's not in his eyes. He's very good at his job.

GBZ- gotcha! (popping up behind)

Rainboe is right, but Brown doesn't have a smile, he has a rictus.

But I have a serious question on airport tax, APD, whatever.
Does anyone have a website which shows the departure tax for different countries in Europe?

It's not a smile, he has permanent wind!

Can't wait until he takes over from Cronie Blair, fabulous democracy over here.

Let the good times roll, fun to see that all the major parties have jumped on the 'green' bandwagon against aircraft the nasty polluters whilst the EU happily gives away the US openskies agreement to all 'plentiful and cheaper flights for the masses'? Whereas heavy industry, from which we all benefit, gets away with a corporate tax cut and further benefits to stem the job losses to the cheaper newer 'EU' member state who are raking in the EU benefits and not conning their citizens with a trumped up 'Green Tax'.

If Robber Brown wishes the country to go 'green' then I'm all for it but we put ALL of the taxes into an environmental fund to be targetted at 'Global Warming' and not into a failing NHS and a lazy arsed layabouts fund aka Social Security.

Taxes, gotta luv em!:sad:

I haven't found such a table, but haven't looked that hard tbh.

I was just going of Ryanair's website. Ryanair might have lots of add ons, but they are pretty good at telling you what they are.

The only EU country which comes close to us so far is France at approx £9. No-one else really above the previous rate of £5.

The real sting imho is what this does for our domestic tourist industry:

Family of four from Belfast taking short break in London - £80 APD (2x4x£10)

Same family goes from Dublin (0 APD) to Girona (E5.78) return, pays diddly squat, but flight is about 3x as far.

APD
 

Dublin airport is delighted at the increased taxes in the UK. It is attracting a lot of new traffic from Northern Ireland to travel via Dublin. Ryanair fares are lower than those of Easyjet to begin with and the APD just makes the price difference bigger. Longhaul also is now cheaper from Dublin than Belfast. As well as that it attracts European tourists who were thinking of holidaying in Belfast. They save approximately €15 each on the flights. That may not sound much but when there is for example a party of 5 it saves €75.

Just done MAN-AMS with Jet2 4x£15= £60 Total inc taxes £238 :mad: :mad:
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