Alaska Cruise Ship Head Tax

KTUU Channel 2 in Anchorage Alaska reports that the cruise industry has filed suit to avoid paying Alaskas head count tax.

Alaska cruise ship head tax. So a couple traveling together can expect somewhere in the range of 300-500 in fees and taxes. Generally speaking this is to help cover costs associated with passengers using the local infrastructure. The Alaska Senate approved a measure today which will lower Alaskas head tax on cruise ship passengers by at least 1150 a passenger from 46 to 3450.

Money collected from the head tax was to be appropriated by the legislature to municipalities to defray their cost of providing public services to cruise tourism. 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. For example Alaska approved US 50 divided into the following two pieces.

US46 flat tax levied on every passenger per voyage another US4 tax is levied on the cruise ship for each berth to pay. Since then 20 years of city finance documents show that. Cruise lines also have to pay a per-passenger fee known as a head tax.

Aug 27 2006. Count this one as a big win for Carnival and it subsidiaries Princess Cruises and Holland America Line which are the major polluters of Alaskas waters. Cruise Ship Industry Files Suit Over Head Tax Channel 2 reports that cruise lines are trying to avoid the 46 infrastructure tax levied at Alaska ports which the cruise ships useThe cruise industry.

In case cruise ship passengers stop in Port Ketchikan Revillagigedo Island Alaska in 2021 they are likely to pay an extra US2 in head taxes. Juneaus cut from the state tax is typically 5 per passenger. 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.

That he said would add to the cost of cruise ships calling into Ketchikans downtown berths by 9 per passenger. The association which represents nine cruise lines agreed to drop its suit if the state lowered the head tax by 1150. The attorney generals office has been trying to settle the case as Parnell sought to reduce from 46 to 3450 the tax on cruise ship passengers and allow for deeper offsets for local head taxes.