Passenger Tax Worth $264M

A 33 percent increase in mandatory security fees will cost air passengers more than a quarter billion next year, the Parliamentary Budget Office said yesterday. Cabinet raised the fees for the first time since 2010 though figures showed revenues were an average 12 percent more than the cost of airport X-ray scanning: “It has become a cash cow, not a fee for service.”

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