Departure Tax (Noun)
Meaning
A tax that is levied when you are departing a country by land or sea or air.
Classification
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.
Examples
- Travellers are required to pay the departure tax before they can board their flights home from the resort country.
- When the tourists were leaving the country by air they were surprised to learn about the departure tax that they needed to pay.
- This travel agency includes the departure tax on the price of their tour package.
- The customs official explained to the holiday maker how much departure tax was required to be paid on the goods being exported.
- Departure tax needs to be paid in any one of three specified currencies as this country cannot handle any local currencies of the tourists.