<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (septquatresept @ Jan 14 2009, 04:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
Some countries have an extra departure tax that you pay upon check in; I did in LGW on US. Then again, I wasn&#39;t on a ZED; rather, I was on my own airline.

One place that I did pay extra, even with a ZED, was departing from LIM. There was a $35 departure tax that you pay in a separate area, after check-in but before security.

Those are the only two places that I, myself, have ever encountered something like that. My list of places I&#39;ve traveled is by no means extensive though. There are still plenty of places in the world I have to visit![/b]
I don&#39;t know of any tax collected at LGW routinely. Every UK TFC (Tax/Fee/Charge) is ticketed, meaning it is (or is supposed to be) collected at the time the ticket is issued. I suspect it was because the agent noticed that a particular tax was not collected on your ticket.

The tax you paid in LIM is the Airport Departure Tax (code PE2) which cannot be collected on the ticket and must be collected at the airport.

It really all depends on how the taxing authority for that particular TFC files the tax rules. Collected at ticketing vs. collected at the airport. Paid by the ticketing carrier vs. the ticketed/transporting carrrier. There are all sorts of variations.