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Old Sep 18, 2016 | 7:15 pm
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Originally Posted by Efrem
In the U.S., services are not generally subject to sales taxes. Airlines make up for this by being subject to a bazillion other taxes.
Indeed. Many sales taxes are not true value-added taxes and thus are not applied to services. Typically countries/states with a form of VAT will also apply it to airline tickets.
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