The Finance Committee of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, approved today a new procedure on travel taxes designed to plug a prospective loophole.
To deal with the possibility, that an Israeli may buy a ticket here for a short trip and then at the nearest stop outside of Israel buy a ticket for the rest of the trip, the new arrangements provide that the travel tax is to be based on a certain percentage 40 to 45 percent of the price of the ticket bought in Israel, plus a fixed amount.
The fixed amount will be 80 pounds by ship or 100 pounds by air regardless of distance. Tickets purchased with foreign currency also will be subject to a fixed payment and a five percent tax.
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