| Show 4 - i I - i ' The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday September 30 1990 NV3 1 - 1 J Departure tax catches many by surprise - 4:k ' a 1 asa I By Bob Pool Los Angeles Times Writer LOS ANGELES — 1 1 1 1 I t ' ' i 4 1 I After a mer of sightseeing visitor Erich ritz had a few final words for Angeles: "Lemme outta here!" sumMo- Los The German tourist had spent his vacation traveling by bicycle from Alaska to Acapulco He had swatted mosquitoes in Canada sweated humidity in Mexico and slept next to roadsides on all but two nights during his three-mont- h odyssey His camera had been swiped in Anchorage on the first day of his trip His tent had been stolen in San Francisco halfway through the trek Now he was wondering whether his pocket was about to be picked on his last day in Los Angeles Moritz had the departure tax on his mind The tax is a $16 fee that is collected from Los Angeles International Airport passengers headed abroad Six dollars goes to the federal De partment of Transportation the rest is split by the federal Customs and Immigration and Naturalization services — although all three agencies waive the fee to passengers flying to areas of Mexico Canada and some Caribbean islands Most travelers pay the tax without knowing it after it is automatically added to the price of their airline ticket at the time of purchase But hundreds of others are jolted each day to discover that their travel agent failed to include the tax in the air fare and they must fork over $16 before they can board their plane for home That spells trouble for tourists who have spent their last $30 on a taxi ride to Los Angeles International Airport or who used up the last of their American currency at an airport souvenir shop Youthful visitors traveling on a shoestring — those who have sought cut-rat- e air fares to begin with and carefully budgeted their trips — are the most common victims People like Erich Moritz "Sixteen dollars is a lot" said the student from Munich as he waited in the Walla Airlines check-i- n line He was anxious to claim a window seat and learn whether his 000 round-tri- p ticket included the tax "I have just a few dollars left They should warn people about this" Most carriers pay the tax for passengers who do not have the cash Muramoto said travel agents often omit the departure tax "to make the tickets look cheaper" Some airlines send passengers without cash to the Travelers Aid So ciety which donates the 818 if an investigation verifies that the passenger have no money "Generally it's a young person who's backpacking it and is down to his last dollar" said Susan Edelstein who heads the Los Angeles International Airport Travelers Aid office "They have their return ticket They know they're going to be fed on the plane and that someone is going to pick them up at the airport" Back at the Alitalia counter Moritz had four bills left in the nylon money belt beneath his after learning at the last minute that he was required to purchase a 616 shipping box for his bicycle Happily the coding on his ticket showed that he had prepaid the departure tax With minutes to spare Moritz boxed his bike and ran for his plane "The window seats are taken I've got one in the middle And it's a 16- hour flight" he shrugged So long LA "We wouldn't keep them off the plane What would we do with them?" said SAS Scandinavian Airlines passenger service representative Birgitta Timko Stella Miranda an agent for Qantas the Australian airline said: "We make them sweat a little We wait 10 minutes until departure If we see they really don't have the money we waive it" Joe Matz an agent for Air New Zealand said he collects the tax from reluctant travelers "all the time every day" Some passengers claim they don't have the money however "We usually scare them We take a picture of the passport and have them sign it and tell them the government is going to come after them They'll say 'The travel agent didn't tell me' or 'I spent my last money on the cab' But we usually collect it — they have credit cards and that's what we grab" Said Liz Muramoto a ticket agent for Japan Airlines: "The ones who say they don't have the money have It They come up with it when you say they can't go I had one man who whipped out a roll of WO bills after he'd said he didn't have any money" I4 : ' - 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