Air travelers can qualify for a small refund
If you purchased a ticket on or before July 22 for travel, whether domestic or international, beginning in July 23 Do not throw out your receipt. You can depend on up to $ 60 in a tax refund.
The only good thing about the Congressional wrangling, which later led to the partial shutdown of the FAA, is that travelers do not pay taxes, while some travel agency is off.
At midnight on July 22, the FAA stopped collecting federal ticket taxes, ranging from excise duty to the international facilities tax, and as a result of millions of consumers due a refund, from about $ 30 for those who bought a ticket for $ 200, to as much as $ 60 for those who bought a $ 500 ticket, said Rick Seaney, CEO of FareCompare.com.
"All is for the airlines is a month not to travel on the day you bought the ticket," he explained, so you actually pay taxes on your ticket for the days you travel.
Overall, he added, travelers could stop with a return of about 15 percent of their ticket price.
Here is a rundown of the taxes expired from the Internal Revenue Service:
The 7.5 percent tax on the base fare. The domestic segment tax of $ 3.70 per person per segment (one-off and landing a few). The international travel facilities tax of $ 16.30 per person for flights that begin or end in the U.S., or $ 8.20 per person for a flight that begins or ends in Alaska or Hawaii. The 6.25 percent tax on the amount paid for the transportation of property by air.
But the big question is, how you will get your refund?
"People are greatly confused," says Chris Elliott, consumer advocate and syndicated travel writer. "Some airlines say, go to the IRS, others say they would make a refund."
The IRS has asked the airlines to pay the premiums directly, and some have announced that they plan to do so.
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Delta was one of the first major carrier to announce it would be to send passengers a refund directly.
"Delta is awaiting guidance from the IRS in the process of awarding grants," the company said in a statement. "But to streamline the process, the airline process refunds directly to customers when an agreement is reached with the IRS on the procedure for this."
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Yes, Seaney said none of the airlines have not yet carried out a process by which consumers can get their refund, but he is following the situation on its website, and suggested that consumers monitor the IRS site and the airline's website where they purchased tickets.
For some consumers, the money might not be worth the effort, said Elliott, but for business travel managers, or people with large families traveling, he said, "it is not an insignificant amount of money."
For the rest of your fliers who bought your ticket after July 22 and think you will get a break on taxes on flights due to FAA shuts down, forget it. Most of the major airlines raised their prices to compensate for the difference and disposing of the unprecedented, said Seaney, except for Spirit Airlines and Alaska Airlines.
Maybe it's time for a trip to "The Last Frontier".
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