AIDS Levy for Air Travelers?

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  07.06.09 | 11:07 AM ET

There’s a proposal in the works to add a special tax, marked for efforts to fight AIDS in developing countries, to all flight purchases in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany. A similar tax has been in place in France for three years and has raised nearly $1 billion. The Financial Times has the details on what the plan might look like.