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.

Tags: Airworld, Developing World, Health, Europe, England, Germany, North America, United States, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


2 Comments for AIDS Levy for Air Travelers?

Chas 07.06.09 | 8:23 PM ET

This is stupid when travel is plummeting in this economic slowdown.  Why AIDS?  Why not cancer or alzheimer’s or malaria?

Jennifer 07.07.09 | 7:10 AM ET

I have to agree 100% with Chas!!!!!

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