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06-14-2007, 04:00 PM
The government plans to pay for the new Dominican Air Force planes it is buying from Brazil with money that comes from the tax that visitors pay when they enter or leave the country. Hoy writes that the one-dollar tax, paid for by airplane passengers, was approved on 19 April. President Fernandez will be in Brazil next week and will visit the manufacturing company that is building the planes. The tax was approved by decree 225-07 and it increases the price that airlines have to pay for each passenger to US$13.75. The decree came in effect on 2 June. It is estimated that this year 4.7 million people will pass through the country's six airports, which will generate an estimated US$10 million in 2007 and RD$20 million in 2008. The tax was initially introduced to build tourism infrastructure.
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