Taxes
It was pleasing to note that the EU is considering banning the oft-used practice of budget airlines of advertising flights for "as little as 99p!" only to add large amounts of taxes and fees after you've decided to book the flight. But what amused me was a quote on the BBC website from Mike Pedley, principal researcher at Holiday Which?:
"For airlines it is common practice to separate out charges but consumers only get shown the full price at the end of the booking. This doesn't happen at the supermarket till, so why should buying flights be any different?"
Er... he's obviously never been to the US. Not that the tax is ever that much, but the thing I find most annoying is that you can never use up your loose change because, what with sales tax being an almost continuously varying function of ones position, it is impossible to work out what the total charge is going to be in advance.
posted by Claire @ 11:49 am
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Also, they handily avoid making coins of any reasonable value. So on the rare occasion you might want to use some change, you don't have enough of it.
Loonies!
Loonies are not small change. A Loonie is a unit of currency utilised north of the American border for the purpose of obtaining goods and services. The name derives from the rendering of a 'loon', a common seabird found commonly, upon the coin. A 'toonie'? Well, a toonie has a polar bear on it. A toonie is worth too loonies.
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