Getting Around The 35% Afip Tax?

[spiritk]

Hello,
I'm currently travelling in argentina and wanted to bring my mother to visit as well. Was looking to book a flight TLV->BUE->TLV, however I found out today about the ZK 35% tax that is added to all purchases here and therefore makes booking a flight here extremely unattractive..

questions:
1) Is it relevant also for tourists, non residents?
2) Icould it be that its only relevant for flights originating in argentina and not coming to argentina?

I'd, obviously, would like to pay with cash.

Thanks for your advice!

 

[lucha54]

#2 is correct.
But anyway the 35% applies to both tourists and residents whether you pay in cash or not. But your TLV return ticket shouldn't be affected, I don't think.

 

[DCexpatstudent]

If you pay taxes you can take it on your taxes

 

[lucha54]

If you pay taxes you can take it on your taxes

Correction if you are an Argentine working en blanco... I think this person is Israeli.

 

[DCexpatstudent]

Yeah thought I'd throw it out there but didn't know their circumstances of course

 

[citygirl]

If you buy the ticket on an int'l website, you won't pay the tax. There are different pricing structures however for flights bought here and flights bought overseas. So if you have access to dollars/blue rate, check both and do the math to figure out which works out to be cheaper.