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Travel Tax Refund.

  • 29-04-2013 10:11pm
    #1
    Wheelnut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 977 ✭✭✭


    Last August I cancelled a foreign holiday just hours before departure due to an illness. I lost all my money and made a claim on my travel insurance. The insurance company paid up and deducted a sum for the excess on the policy. They also refused to compensate for the travel tax (two people, €130) and said it was a matter for the travel company or the airline to refund.

    I have no complaint against the insurance company, in fact I think they are right. It's a travel tax so if we don't travel there's no tax due, right?

    Since last August the travel agent in the midlands has been stringing me along. They claim the holiday company in Dublin has the money and the holiday company claim that Aer Lingus has the money. At one point the holiday company in Dublin said that I had not cancelled in time to get a tax refund but they seem to have retreated from that position.

    I now need to do some more to move this along. Firstly, am I correct in thinking that the travel tax should be refunded? The ITAA seem to be just a promotional body and I don't see any dispute resolution service on their website, so is this a matter for the small claims court or is there another body that deals with cases like this?



    (Note to mods: although a part of this query concerns tax, it is not the whole query, so please advise if it should be posted elsewhere)


Comments

  • #2
    petersburg2002
    Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭petersburg2002


    I cancelled two British Airways flights from London to Russia last year. Airline told me the tickets were non changeable and non refundable. However, I did claim for a refund of taxes. Which I received after I posted the tickets to an address on their website.


  • #3
    Geuze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,039 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/excise/leaflets/air-travel-tax-faqs.html#section4

    Air Travel Tax from an Irish airport is 3 euro since March 2011.


    An other "taxes" are just airport fees or airline charges that they call taxes.


  • #4
    Wheelnut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Wheelnut


    Oh f*(k !!! You're probably right! I had seen that piece about the €3 travel tax but assumed it was superseded by something else because the full amount of €130 was shown as "tax" in my documents.

    What now? is the "fee" part of the "tax" lost just like the main part of what I paid?


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