Quote Originally Posted by Migflanker View Post
Corbeck, try dropping a line to aazed (our ZED correspondent), hopefully she’ll be able to answer your questions.
http://nonrev.net/general-discussion...ed-travel.html
I haven't responded to this query because there is no clear answer. The best I can say is "it depends".

Tax rules are dynamic and, in many cases, left to interpretation. For example, while a tax might exempt ID90 it doesn't necessarily exempt ZED. ID90 and ZED are not the same and yet they are, so does the exemption apply? Taxes are written generally as they apply to commercial travel, so while a tax might not apply if the commercial passenger is making an immediate connection (i.e., as required by the fare purchased), an airline employee on a standby ticket isn't traveling under the same conditions (i.e., a ZED fare doesn't require immediate connection vs. stopover) so the "transit exempt" tax may or may not apply, and if it does, and the ticketing airline doesn't collect it, it may still have to pay it when the transporting airline bills it. See, clear as mud.

There is no chart or summary that says definitively which taxes do and don't apply. Again, the only answer to the question is "it depends."

Sorry.