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Old Dec 5, 2014, 5:36 am
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SJOGuy
 
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Right. For those of us who live here, going to a hotel to pay the tax would take a lot more time than just doing it at the airport. And I'm sure not going to stand in line at a branch of Bancredito, the state bank that collects the tax, to do it. I'll continue to pay at the airport.

The spokesman for Bancredito told La Nacion that the new system should be up and running for all airlines in six months. I should have known when I first posted this news.

Yes, I remember the days of the three-tiered tax: tourists, citizens, residents. They also pasted stamps in your passport to show that you had paid the tax. If they ran out of high-denomination stamps, they'd use a combo of low-denomination ones. I remember flying out once years ago and that one exit took up a whole page in my passport.

They have come a long way, but as with all things here, it's been slooooooow.

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