Tax calculator

[burnt]

Can anybody help with access to an online tax calculator, that can be used for checking taxes on various "One World" 140-280k tickets, I am aware that QF have an online one for their agents but it requires an agent login.

 

[JohnK]

Genuine taxes or including fuel surcharges. I thought the only was to go through the itinerary on the award booking engine and see the total taxes and surcharges.

Qantas also have some example itineraries on their website for award tickets.

 

[Scarlett]

Can anybody help with access to an online tax calculator, that can be used for checking taxes on various "One World" 140-280k tickets, I am aware that QF have an online one for their agents but it requires an agent login.

I can see that this would be very useful. Think of the number of times you've read on this site how properly informed AFFers have been able to correct what agents and/or other staff that work around the airline industry have told / charged them. If we have no way of being able to verify what can be a very expensive cost (eg: taxes and fees on a DONEx) then we just have to cough up the thousands that have been calculated for us.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the 'pricing departments' do a good job in the majority of cases, but simply being told that I'm up for ~$2000 with no way of verifying it, other than a seemingly random collection of two letter abbreviations after the fact (XA, XY, YC, US, AU, YQ, WY, XF etc etc), does concern me.

 

[JohnM]

I can see that this would be very useful. Think of the number of times you've read on this site how properly informed AFFers have been able to correct what agents and/or other staff that work around the airline industry have told / charged them. If we have no way of being able to verify what can be a very expensive cost (eg: taxes and fees on a DONEx) then we just have to cough up the thousands that have been calculated for us.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the 'pricing departments' do a good job in the majority of cases, but simply being told that I'm up for ~$2000 with no way of verifying it, other than a seemingly random collection of two letter abbreviations after the fact (XA, XY, YC, US, AU, YQ, WY, XF etc etc), does concern me.

the current OW RTW planning and booking tool now gives a fully detailed tax listing, describing in plain English each charge - after you have booked and paid (unless I missed the opportunity to review it first). However, I guess the fairly detailed listing would give the opportunity to challenge any individual item that you thought was odd. But, then again, now that it gives you the full listing of every charge, it perhaps suggests that the system is now pretty accurate.

I've just booked a DONE5 and taxes came in at $1442.73, in 27 items ranging in detail and cost from 'GST for Canada' $1.70, 'Security Tax for Spain' $5.50, 'Australia Baggage Screening Tax - Departure' $5.53 to the rather more cryptic 'Multiple Carrier Surcharges/Fees' $266.80 and 'Carrier Surcharge/Fee' $523.50.

Itinerary is: PER-SYD-xDFW-YYC-xDFW-RIC-xDFW-SFO-xJFK-SCL-xMAD-LHR-TXL-xLHR-xHKG-xADL-PER.

 

[JohnM]

On re-checking, I can see that at the point of pricing the RTW itinerary it is possible to preview the tax breakdown.

My itinerary was purchased, not the 140K/280K redemption. I guess the taxes would be the same - if it were possible to capture the same itinerary on a redemption.

 

[Mwenenzi]

List here, without the value http://www.oeaw.ac.at/shared/news/2006/pdf/eu_info_flugtickets_gebuehren_aufstellung_IATA.PDF from 2002
In times past (as above) you could get from IATA.org, but now they want payment IATA - List of Ticket and Airport Taxes and Fees (Tax List)