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OFWs exempt from travel tax, terminal fee, labor chief reiterates

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<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ix3UbWF5qEo?enablejsapi=1"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>MANILA - Overseas Filipino workers are exempted from paying terminal fees and travel taxes, Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestro Bello III said on Tuesday.</p><p>Bello said the labor department wrote to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, asking the agency to refund terminal fees collected from OFWs.</p><p>&quot;Hindi dapat kinokolektahan ang mga OFW ng terminal fee. Ngayon, patuloy pa rin nilang kinokolektahan. Pumipila pa rin ang aming OFW kapag sila&#x27;y lumalabas,&quot; Bello said.</p><p>(They should not collect terminal fees from OFWs. However, they continue to do so. Our OFWs still line up when they leave.)</p><p>&quot;Yung mga airline pag benta nila ng ticket kasama na travel tax, bawal &#x27;yun,&quot; he said.</p><p>(Travel taxes are already included in airline tickets. That is prohibited.)</p><p>Based on Presidential Decree No. 1183 and the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act, Filipinos working abroad are exempted from paying terminal fees and travel taxes.</p><p>He said the refund should be remitted to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration as trustee of OFWs.</p>

<p>The Department of Labor and Employment wrote to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, asking the agency to refund terminal fees collected from OFWs.</p>

The Department of Labor and Employment wrote to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, asking the agency to refund terminal fees collected from OFWs.