Phuket’s new tourism tax won’t affect foreign residents or workers

[Upnotover]

4 hours ago, kiwikeith said:

Al airlines collect the airport tax for  entering NZ including Thai airways, its not a problem and not even mentioned on your ticket except maybe for includes taxes.

Which is fine.  But this 300 baht is not for everyone, hence their dilemma. 

[sandyf]

On 10/28/2024 at 5:39 AM, NemoH said:

Next -The easiest mode of collection will likely be built into the air tickets …

You need to explain how that works at land borders.

 

The air tickets have been done to death, any online approach could only be done through the embassies/consulates such as ETA and tourist visa fees.

The end result could well be manual collection by some other means, like you get in other countries.

[sandyf]

14 hours ago, Upnotover said:

Which is fine.  But this 300 baht is not for everyone, hence their dilemma. 

Quite, it is problematic for airline surcharges to be selective. The only one I am aware of is the UK's Air Passenger Duty which is based on ticket fare class, something the airline can recognise.

Passengers nationality and visa status are non starters.