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Philippine Travel Tax
I was recently booking a flight on Philippine Airlines and noticed there is a new addition to the booking conditions. It states those who have to pay the "Philippine Travel Tax" should do so before check-in with Philippine Airlines. I have only paid the airport departure fee and I never seen of heard of this tax before.
Is this tax new and who has to pay this tax? Anyone know?
Here is the link to the Philippine Travel Tax website
[url]http://www.philtourism.com/ttax.html[/url]
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[QUOTE=Stroker Ace88]I was recently booking a flight on Philippine Airlines and noticed there is a new addition to the booking conditions. It states those who have to pay the "Philippine Travel Tax" should do so before check-in with Philippine Airlines. I have only paid the airport departure fee and I never seen of heard of this tax before.
Is this tax new and who has to pay this tax? Anyone know?
Here is the link to the Philippine Travel Tax website
[url]http://www.philtourism.com/ttax.html[/url][/QUOTE]It does not apply for a lot of non resedent aliens, ie tourists amongst them
Read your own link on "what the tax is"
Before listing a whole lot of exempted cases, it summarizes that list with:
[QUOTE] Non-immigrant aliens who have not stayed in the Philippines for more than a year are not covered by the travel tax. However, PTA F356 need to be prepared by the ticketing officer for passengers with the following immigration status except for FGO & their dependents (Sec. 9E) who have stayed for more than a year, they have to secure Travel Tax Exemption Certificate.
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Lots of governments are trying to cash here, there and everywhere to finance their expenditure.
Air travels is one of the best targets for this, I am afraid.
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[quote=xxl]one remarkable thing about these cases is that they have nothing to do with sex. i wonder what the risk is to get scammed by girls you have sex with. suppose you rent an apartment long term in any part of the country where there is some action. you bring in home 3 or 4 different girls each weak. how long before one of them tells everyone you promised to marry her and if you don't you have to pay etc?[/quote]i would bet all i have that 9 out of 10 cases that end up in court because of sex cases go quite. who wants to see their face in the newspaper / media (all for fuck's sake. you know the philippine media and what is written there. nothing but gossip shit. including kris aquino accusing her lover of giving her sexual diseases. damn i love philippines)
i have heard enough cases, including a guy who was caught by manila's finest, based upon a girl's complaint that she was raped (and god forbid the man who does such travesty to a good catholic girl) and charged to "for [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord908][CodeWord908][/url]" (god knows how a monger became a human trafficker) paid 5, 000 us to walk out of philippines, and banned from entering the country, and when he tried to sell his apartment. somebody had lodged a caveat, and he had to forego the 150, 000 us apartment at 75, 000. and he is yet to get his money.
always, play safe, and don't offend the natives, and even when the natives are all smiley face and seem to be happy when you are screwing their sisters and cousins, they are fuming like a volcano. and when they have a couple of red horse litro, their imagination can run wild
my 2 cents: moral of the story. lie low, and play safe.
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Hey Guys,
I'm new to the Manilla board here. Been there once, had an absolutely STELLAR time, might have to avoid a few baby momma's when I reach land, but other than that nothing but good memories of the Phillipines. Would like to know anything and everything about the Metro Manilla area. The last time my friend and I had a driver, and I wasnt much paying attention to what we doing or where we were driving. I do however remember that we were taken on an approximately 30 minute drive from the Mall of Asia, I believe it was Metro Manilla. Was thinking about trying out the bar scene this time around, but my best memory was our driver taking us to some hole in the wall, where I met the Filipino girl of my dreams. (Potential baby momma, wouldn't mind dropping her some child support, and continuing a relatinoship actually). In the Metro Manilla area, are there any solid suggestions from any of you veterans here?
Cheers!
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Leeroy182 what exactly do you mean by this? Does this mean you have children in Phil?
[QUOTE=Leeroy182]Hey Guys,
might have to avoid a few baby momma's when I reach land, but other than that nothing but good memories of the Phillipines
I met the Filipino girl of my dreams. (Potential baby momma, wouldn't mind dropping her some child support, and continuing a relatinoship actually).
Cheers![/QUOTE]
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It's been a long time since my last course in moral philosophy, so perhaps my reasoning skills in this area are somewhat rusty. Notwithstanding that, I struggle to understand why one voice in the wilderness (the infamous Bop) would become so irate by behavior between consenting adults that harms no one. BDSM is not my thing. I don't get at all turned on by seeing girls in collars, tied up, with butt plugs or various fruits shoved up their nether parts. But I freely acknowledge that others do derive enormous pleasure from such acts, and, as long as there's no coercion involved, I don't see the harm.
Deciding that a given category of sexual activity is "immoral," even when it harms no one, is a slippery slope indeed. Where then, do we draw the line? And who exactly gets to draw it? Are the women who put on shows on Patpong in Bangkok---pulling all manner of paraphernalia from their pussies, shooting darts, opening coke and/or beer bottles, immoral? Are the people who pay them to enact these shows? How about the customers who pay to watch them?
Bop makes the implicit assumption that these women are coerced, at least economically, to engage in this behavior, and I infer, from this posts, that he considers it degrading. However, having met some of these women--including some of those pictured by WR--I know that the women do not find it humiliating, and (again of those that I've met) don't engage in these acts because they're paid extra. Simply stated: they do it because they enjoy it.
Denigrating the activities of other members with no knowledge of their motivation or their character shows, in my opinion, a lack of respect and an inexplicable eagerness to rush to judgment of those whose action require no justification.
GE
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No, I don't know for sure.
None that I know of 100%.
Is anyone available for PM about PI?
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[QUOTE=Tally Wacker]Leeroy182 what exactly do you mean by this? Does this mean you have children in Phil?[/QUOTE]I get his drift that he wants to make girls pregnant. Or am I too missing something here?
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Pregnancy
[QUOTE=Econo Tech]I get his drift that he wants to make girls pregnant. Or am I too missing something here?[/QUOTE]
That was my interpretation too.
Yesterday I got a text from a Pinay friend of mine to say that she had her first menstruation since taking cytotik (sp?) a week ago to abort her 3 months pregnancy fathered by an American guy here. It took her a month to save most of the money for the tablets, the American refused to contribute. She was shocked when a tiny but fully formed foetus appeared. It has clearly had a big emotional impact on her, she talked about its tiny arms and face and took a photo then didn't know what do to with it. She wanted to bury it but her place was all concreted over so went out and bought some cement and put it in a box and cemented it into the ground somewhere in her place. Whether this was a good idea or not is not the point, pregnancy here is a big emotional thing here in the Phils. The Catholic church has inculcated the "mortal sin" idea and many of the girls who undergo abortion will be impacted for life. A couple of months ago I contributed to the medicines necessary for an emergency caesarian for a friend of one of my girls who had been trying to abort a 7 month old pregnancy before she got kicked out of college. The Doctors said it was just 50/50 whether both mother and (1.5kg) baby would survive. So far they seem to have been lucky.
The Phils is over run by Pinoy guys who have a totally irresponsible attitude towards getting girls pregnant. I don't see any reason why theoretically better educated foreigners should add to the trauma.
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Bop
[QUOTE=GoodEnough]It's been a long time since my last course in moral philosophy, so perhaps my reasoning skills in this area are somewhat rusty. Notwithstanding that, I struggle to understand why one voice in the wilderness (the infamous Bop) would become so irate by behavior between consenting adults that harms no one. BDSM is not my thing. I don't get at all turned on by seeing girls in collars, tied up, with butt plugs or various fruits shoved up their nether parts. But I freely acknowledge that others do derive enormous pleasure from such acts, and, as long as there's no coercion involved, I don't see the harm.
GE[/QUOTE]The good news is that BOP got a discussion started about bdsm in the Photo Chit Chat thread. Exactly what he dislikes. Shame, huh?
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Asian Women
About two weeks ago I introduced a friend of mine who has never been out of the USA to DIA and a couple of other free websites with Asians. At first he was all gung ho talking about all the girls who were giving him play and saying that he was going to bring one back. Today I got the funniest text from him. He said, "Hey, these Asian b*s just ask for money all the time." So I told him to ask how much they wanted him to send because they may have a sick buffalo on their hands. After that he had a few choice words for me.
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[QUOTE=GregLondon]The Phils is over run by Pinoy guys who have a totally irresponsible attitude towards getting girls pregnant. I don't see any reason why theoretically better educated foreigners should add to the trauma.[/QUOTE]
Sad but true. I used to think that the irresponsible desertion of women whom they impregnated was the province of pinoys, who often just run and hide out in another island and/or another town, leaving the mothers to fend for themselves. Unfortunately, I've since found out that Western men, and a disturbing number of them, have much the same attitude. This is an issue where the moral issue seems pretty clear. Unfortunately, Filipinas have extremely limited recourse in these situations. Though there are support laws in the Philippines, like all other laws, they're not enforced. In the case of locals made pregnant by morally bankrupt foreigners, the situation is even worse, since the foreigners cannot be compelled to acknowledge paternity, to take a DNA test or even to sign a birth certificate, giving the women and the babies no rights.
Though I'd like to think that the percentage of foreigners who stroll casually away from any responsibility is smaller than the percentage of Filipinos who engage in the same behavior, I'm not sure that it's true.
GE
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[QUOTE=GoodEnough]
Though I'd like to think that the percentage of foreigners who stroll casually away from any responsibility is smaller than the percentage of Filipinos who engage in the same behavior, I'm not sure that it's true.
GE[/QUOTE]
Interesting post this one. Whilst I completely agree that if you have fathered some kid somewhere you should take on some responsibility, as someone who married 16 years ago after making my GF pregnant I am on the verge of a divorce because I married not for love or things in common but because I made a stupid mistake at a young age.
In hindsight maybe I should have sent money regularly and got on with my life.
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[QUOTE=GregLondon]That was my interpretation too.
Yesterday I got a text from a Pinay friend of mine to say that she had her first menstruation since taking cytotik (sp?) a week ago to abort her 3 months pregnancy fathered by an American guy here.
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The Phils is over run by Pinoy guys who have a totally irresponsible attitude towards getting girls pregnant. I don't see any reason why theoretically better educated foreigners should add to the trauma.[/QUOTE][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misoprostol[/url] is scary after 2nd month - and it is lucky she didn't end up as a trauma patient do to catatonic shock ... .:(
There was a filipina here, who suddenly wanted to borrow 100 S$ and only next day she told me she dosed herself on cytotec and (one or two orally and one vaginally I think.) she started to bleed. And double scare. I had to foot the bill for Emergency treatement. Her Scot boyfriend's mistake and the guy only sent an sms advising her to save the baby and get a DNA done before he admits ownership. If she had not had a complete discharge the hospital would have notified the police and she would have been on the next flight back to Phil for good.
Touchy subject, but in my eyes, filipina maids here who become loyal are LOYAL.
Anyway, echoing your and GE's sentiments, I would hazard a guess that 95% of single mothers are due to Filipino men. And less than 5% would be due to foreigners.