* Brazil’s infrastructure minister,
Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, has announced that the government plans to do away with the US$18 departure tax consumers currently pay to leave Brazil by air.
“It does not make sense that we are creating conditions for companies to offer international flights for US$50, while we, on the other hand, charge a US$18 tax per flight. We want to open up the sector, bring competitivity and eliminate barriers to attract new companies”, Gomes de Freitas told the leaders’ forum of the Latin American and Caribbean association of aerial transport (Alta), currently taking place in São Paulo. The government is still evaluating how the departure tax will be eliminated, with the possibility that it will be phased out first for flight routes to Latin America and then for flights to all destinations.
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