Taxes

Before raising a tax discrepancy to Travelport please be aware that we process Tax data electronically provided by ATPCO (Record X1)

If you do raise a case please provide the Airline pricing as a comparison (from another GDS or the Airline directly).

 

Country Taxes

Many countries apply taxes when a ticket involves travel into or out of their country. In addition, many taxes are specific to departure and arrival at a particular airport.

Some taxes must be collected on the ticket when it is issued (ticketable tax). Others must be paid by the passenger at the airport on departure (non-ticketable tax).

Whenever a ticketable tax is relevant to an itinerary, it is automatically included with the fare quote. This tax indicates the amount to be collected in the currency of the country where payment is made.

 

Displaying Country Taxes

Format Description Example
FTAX-xx Country Tax where xx is the two character country code FTAX-GB
FTAX-xxxx Country Tax where xxxx is the country name FTAX-UNITED KINGDOM

 

Currently the number of taxes handled is 20 for all ticket types in 1G/V. Enter *FBTAX to expand the FTAX field that allows up to 20 taxes. Fares with over 20 taxes will need a manual fare build.

If you have more than 20 taxes to be added to a fare, contact the ticketing carrier. They may suggest that you combine additional taxes and specify the tax code that you should use. Enter the detail of each tax at the end of the fare construction.

We would recommend you contact the vendor to ask what taxes can be combined, we do not advise what taxes are to be combined and what tax code they should use. The current taxes can be found by doing FQL after the FQ entry, if you move down you will see the taxes listed.

This entry will illustrate to display information for Los Angeles airport. You must use airport codes for this entry.

Input: FTAX*PFC-LAX

If the ticket is refundable, all taxes and fees are refundable.

If the ticket is nonrefundable, the excise taxes (US) and PFCs (XF) are not refundable. The security fee (AY) is refundable on request. The airlines do not believe there is any legal authority to refund the international inspection fees (XA/XY/YC).

XT tax is not a tax itself, but a group of different taxes automatically generated by the system when multiple taxes are combined.

When pricing a historical fare, make sure you determine first whether historical or current tax should be applied.

FQ.H10MAR19 will price historical fare (fare in effect on 10MAR19) with current taxes (the taxes in effect the day of pricing).

If your intent is to apply historical fare with historical taxes (fare/tax in effect on 10MAR19), use FQ.T10MAR19

The /A appended to fare display:

  • Applies to both the regular fare display and the validated fare display.

  • Does not apply a tax that may be based on the booked itinerary such as flight range, equipment type, operating carrier, transit points etc.

  • Can be used for OW or RT displays. It is not valid for RTW or CTF displays. An error message is returned.

  • Can be combined with other valid fare display modifiers. If combined with an invalid modifier such as /T or /B, an error message is returned.

  • Does not apply to the :NUC display. Any fare display that returns NUC amounts will not include the estimated taxes and when combined an error message is returned.

  • Will show the total of the base fare and estimated taxes on the first line. On the second line will be the base fare (including Q surcharges) and the estimated taxes.

  • Can be used in the initial fare display request or as a follow on

Second line shows a breakdown of the base fare which will include any Q surcharges and the estimated taxes

You can obtain the tax description details upon fare quote.

After pricing enter FQTDD

Example response -

**INFORMATION ONLY - TAX DESCRIPTION**

TAX DETAIL

CTRY TAX DESCRIPTION AIRPORT CX

JP OI PASSENGER SECURITY SERVICE CHARGE NRT JL

JPY 530.00 EQU XAF 2800.00 BSR 1JPY - 5.193842XA

JP SW PASSENGER SERVICE FACILITIES CHARGE INTERN NRT JL

JPY 2130.00 EQU XAF 11100.00 BSR 1JPY - 5.193842XA

JP TK INTERNATIONAL TOURIST TAX NRT JL

JPY 1000.00 EQU XAF 5200.00 BSR 1JPY - 5.193842XA

US US TRANSPORTATION TAX INTERNATIONAL ARRIVAL LAX JL

USD 19.10 EQU XAF 10400.00 BSR 1USD - 541.66867X

US XA APHIS PASSENGER FEE PASSENGERS LAX JL

USD 3.96 EQU XAF 2200.00 BSR 1USD - 541.66867X

US XY IMMIGRATION USER FEE LAX JL

USD 7.00 EQU XAF 3800.00 BSR 1USD - 541.66867X

US YC CUSTOMS USER FEE LAX JL

USD 5.99 EQU XAF 3300.00 BSR 1USD - 541.66867X

 

CARRIER IMPOSED FEES

PLATING CX: JL

TYPE AMOUNT CUR ORG-DES CX SEQUENCE

YQI 3.20 USD NRT-LAX JL 9040100

EQU XAF 1800.00 BSR 1USD - 541.66867X

YQ and YR are fees that are filed in Record S1 in ATPCO. Travelport does not maintain this data; it is electronically processed from the sequence data filed by the carrier.

It is essential that any incidents raised relating to this contain the relevant YQ/YR sequence number(s) from ATPCO.

Travelport processes YQ/YR service fees based on data received from ATPCO from 2 different records.

Fuel and Insurance YQ/YR Data (S1) – The S1 record is filed and owned by the marketing carrier.

Concurrence Record (S2) – The S2 record is filed and owned by the validating or plating carrier.

This is usually when an airline has filed the YQ in their Service Record 1 (S1) with an equipment code for the sector being validated. The system cannot validate and apply the YQ since no flights are booked. When we book and FQ the YQ is assessed and validated. FS (Low Fare shop) always provides the warning -

ADDITIONAL TAXES, SURCHARGES, OR FEES MAY APPLY