Alaska Cruise Ship Head Tax

If cruise lines pass this fee along to their passengers Alaska will charge cruise lines even more fees like a 33 tax on casino profits while ships are in.

Alaska cruise ship head tax. CLIA Alaskas Chairman Charlie Ball said the industry is concerned that cruise lines wouldnt be able to deduct Ketchikans head tax from the state passenger fee which is capped at 3450. The catch is that these rates dont fluctuate with your cruise fare. In fact for the typical 7-day SeattleAlaska cruise taxes and fees can range from between 150-250 per person.

US46 flat tax levied on every passenger per voyage another US4 tax is levied on the cruise ship for each berth to pay. Generally speaking this is to help cover costs associated with passengers using the local infrastructure. Bringing the tax down to the new figure helps delete the portion that cannot be spent in Alaskas port towns and goes to other state infrastructure projects.

Aug 27 2006. Cruise lines also have to pay a per-passenger fee known as a head tax. The association which represents nine cruise lines agreed to drop its suit if the state lowered the head tax by 1150.

That he said would add to the cost of cruise ships calling into Ketchikans downtown berths by 9 per passenger. Community commercial passenger vessel CPV head tax is based upon prior year traffic multiplied by the applicable tax rate for the two communities that impose such a tax 8passenger in Juneau and 7passenger in Ketchikan. Alaska imposes an excise tax on travel on commercial passenger vessels CPVs typically cruise ships that have 250 or more berths and provide overnight accommodations in the states marine waters.

The head tax collections bear no reasonable relationship to the actual costs incurred by municipalities and other Alaska governmental entities to service Large Cruise Ships according to. Juneaus cut from the state tax is typically 5 per passenger. The Alaska State Division of Elections reported that voters have approved a state initiative a ballot measure that levies a 50 head tax on cruise passengers.

The city levies a separate 3 per-passenger fee to cover capital improvements to the downtown waterfront for the provision of service to the cruise ship industry In April 2016 the Cruise. An association of cruise-ship companies filed a lawsuit Friday challenging Alaskas head tax on the approximately 1 million cruise-ship passengers who visit Alaska each year. Since then 20 years of city finance documents show that.