The exit tax will be included in the airline tickets...from early Dec 2014...Tickets purchased after Dec 3rd will have the tax included....

about damn time! CR finally handling the transaction like every other country in the world!

but...but...but those poor souls working the exit tax counter will be out of jobs...oh my!!!

kr

I wouldn't put it past them to still require us to wait in line at that counter to get the slip of paper or a stamp, even though the tax will now be included in the airline ticket.

A solid measure of a man's character is what he does for another person when nobody else is looking.

I have helped a few people that were not going to be able to leave without paying the tax. One poor guy was in his late 20's or early 30's and had 6 dollars on him and no credit cards. I listened to him on the phone to his mom and they would not accept her credit card over the phone. He would have needed to go to a western union and get money but miss his flight. I walked over to him and just gave him 40.00 so he could get something to eat as well, then walked away without saying anything. He could not belive a total stranger in a foreign country would just walk up to him with 40.00 in their hand and just give it to him and walk away. I saw him later in the terminal and he came up to me gave me a hug and said Thank You. All I told him was help someone else in the future when you can. I could tell he had been backpacking his way around and probably staying in Hostels. It is nice that people will not have to go through that sort of embarassment or expense of changing an airline ticket because you do not have $29.00.