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Dec 30, 2006 | 2:39 pm

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Originally Posted by manar

I didn't realise you can do that! Given the thread on J/F taxes from India, I wonder if you might be able to ticket a LONEx in India then get it retickets in J/F as soon as you leave the country as a means to avoid the tax. Not sure it'd ever be worth it but uncovering kinks in the system always appeals.

You can do that, but taxes are computed based on country of original issue, so the 12% India luxury tax would then be added. Of course it might take a few weeks for the airlines to update their systems to compute this correctly.

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