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Old Sep 17, 2016 | 9:48 am
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What country? Airplane tickets are taxed at the federal level in the USA, but at least generally not hit with state sales tax. The old PSA and even early Southwest might have been exempt from the federal and subject to state taxes when they operated solely within a single state.
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