TSA Tax May Increase

A recent Senate-passed budget resolution would doubles and eventually triple the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) passenger security tax. The budget resolution passed by the Senate would double the TSA passenger security tax to $5 per one-way trip and would trip the tax to $7.50 per one-way trip by 2017. It is estimated that this will cost airline customers $2.5 billion annually over the next 10 years. The bill has not yet gotten final approval or is being sent to the President.

Since 2007, the TSA's budget has increased 18 percent