Here's what it said on their website:
The following information explains what taxes and fees apply when you purchase your tickets, hotel reservation and other travel arrangements with us. We hope that you find this explanation helpful. For ticket orders and travel reservations, the term "taxes" means that we collect an amount from you equal to the amount that we expect our travel suppliers to bill us in order to pay any applicable taxes, governmental fees and any other charges remitted to the government. So when you see taxes on the website, this means a tax recovery charge, as defined by the following; In order to provide one of the most comprehensive listings of offers with the most competitive prices, our pre-paid model consists of securing the travel products as inventory from our travel suppliers and then providing this wide array of travel products to you, our customers. We charge your credit card the full amount of the transaction at the time of the reservation, including any taxes and fees. When we are billed for the inventory from our travel suppliers, we are billed with the applicable taxes, governmental fees and any other charges remitted to the government. Therefore, what we are collecting from you is a "tax recovery charge" that is equal to the amount we expect our travel suppliers to bill us so they can pay those taxes, governmental fees and other charges to the government. What does all this mean to you? Just keep in mind that when you see the words "taxes" on our site, it may mean "tax recovery charge and the percentage will vary based on multiple variables including different local city, state, county, resort and other governmental tax amounts.
Another example: When we purchase tickets and other travel from our suppliers, often times we have to pay sales tax on the purchase and the sales tax is charged to you, the ultimate consumer. Therefore, what we're collecting from you is a tax recovery charge that is equal to the amount we expect our travel suppliers to charge us. For example, when you go to Walt Disney World's website, the ticket prices are listed prior to charging the 6.4% to 6.65% sales tax (percentage ranges based on different counties of the 4 theme parks) that will be added to all ticket transactions, including when we purchase tickets from Walt Disney World for sale through our website to our customers. When you purchase a hotel reservation in Lake Buena Vista (where Walt Disney World is located), Orlando or Tampa, FL, the combined taxes for hotel reservations will range between 10% and 14%. In most cases, this will be billed separately from room rates with resort fees and other applicable taxes and fees as a separate line item. When we present the breakdown to our customers, we make our best efforts to list the items separately for you in a similar manner.
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