As previously mentioned, "...expect an increase of one to 40 Euros when you pay for your plane tickets, as France adds French tax on airline tickets. Your tax money will be used to buy bulk purchases of medicines to help fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria."
Richard Quest of CNN Business Traveller take on this issue:
"business travelers have been the cash cows for everyone else. Hotels overcharging on phone calls, taxis taking you for a ride, airlines overcharging (now price fixing on surcharges possibly??) and a reservoir of money for every hair-brained tax idea that comes along.
We are not governments' ATMs to be used when needed for this or that. Others should withstand this wonderful motive and dreadful idea."
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I could only find myself nodding whilst I was reading. What do you think?!
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