Ticket Tax Box Service (TTBS) is an online platform that enables airlines, Global Distribution Systems (GDS), Online Travel Agents (OTAs), IT solution providers and airfare search engines to have access to the latest passenger ticket taxes, fees and charges (TFCs) published worldwide by official sources in a single global database compiled by IATA. Over 150 airlines and 20 GDSs use TTBS on a daily basis.
How can you make sure you are always using the correct rules and rates for every ticket?
With over 1,000 passenger ticket TFCs and with more than 100 modifications of these taxes being issued each month, staying up-to-date can be challenging, time-consuming, and costly. To make sense of all these changes, IATA consolidates data from official sources of government tax authorities as well as over 6,600 airports in more than 220 countries and compiles them into TTBS, a centralized industry trusted database. Updates are done daily to ensure that TTBS subscribers always use the most accurate rates and complete TFCs for all their calculations. Through this database, subscribers are able to:
- Identify taxes, fees, and charges
- Price, ticket, and process complex itineraries
- Bill, audit, and settle taxes, fees, and charges with speed and efficiency
How to access TTBS?
TTBS is hosted on a secure web-based platform. It offers a powerful and user-friendly interface providing search and reporting capabilities by country, airport, segment, currency and tax code. TTBS data is also delivered via XML for easy integration into your organization’s system allowing automatic transactions.
Interested in seeing TTBS firsthand?
View the TTBS online demo
What benefits can you expect by switching to TTBS?
By using TTBS in your ticketing, finance or accounting operations, you will be able to:
- Ensure accuracy in collecting and remitting taxes, fees and charges for each ticket
- Improve efficiency thanks to user-friendly lookups with data sorted, filtered and grouped by airport, country, currency, tax code and flight segment
- Benchmark detailed tax data comparison across countries to optimize costs
- Access to IATA Subject Matter Experts, training and help resources
- Export data in XML-format for integration in proprietary systems for streamlined processes
- Instantly benefit from TTBS as no special software is required
Sign up to TTBS
There are four different options to subscribe to IATA’s tax related products:
Top Premium Daily
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| TTBS daily updates with e-mail alerts, RATD, IATA List of Ticket and Airport Taxes and Fees |
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CONTACT US to place your order |
Top Premium Monthly
| PACKAGE INCLUDES | IDEAL FOR | ORDER |
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| TTBS monthly updates, RATD and IATA List of Ticket and Airport Taxes and Fees |
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CONTACT US to place your order |
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| Access to the RATD database powered by ATPCO Tax Summary and monthly .txt files for system integration |
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CONTACT US to place your order |
IATA List of Ticket and Airport Taxes & Fees
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| Access to a single user Windows application for PC |
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ORDER ONLINE |