Computing tax rates on MYW packages

[OklahomaTourist]

Could someone relay how tax is computed on MYW packages?

Is there a 6.5% Orlando sales tax on the tickets, and an 8% hotel tax on the resort portion? Or is it calculated on the entire package price? The invoice WDW sent me does not break down the tax portion, and as I was crunching through some numbers I realized I couldn't quite make things add up correctly.

My assumption was this:

total pacakge cost=
Daily hotel rate + 12.5% hotel tax +
Tickets + 6.5% sales tax

Not so?

 

[Marionnette]

Could someone relay how tax is computed on MYW packages?

Is there a 6.5% Orlando sales tax on the tickets, and an 8% hotel tax on the resort portion? Or is it calculated on the entire package price? The invoice WDW sent me does not break down the tax portion, and as I was crunching through some numbers I realized I couldn't quite make things add up correctly.

My assumption was this:

total pacakge cost=
Daily hotel rate + 8% hotel tax +
Tickets + 6.5% sales tax

Not so?

The hotel tax rate will depend on the county in which the resort is located. It ranges from 12.5% - 13%

 

[OklahomaTourist]

The hotel tax rate will depend on the county in which the resort is located. It ranges from 12.5% - 13%

Thanks Marionnette.

In reviewing my package price, I went back and reconstructed a "room only" version of the identical reservation to get the WDW total that would include the daily rate (which I already knew, but confirmed) plus the tax, so I was able to back into the hotel tax rate. For SSR, its 12.5%. I had been using 8% from some wrong data.

The math all works now. Thanks.

 

[OklahomaTourist]

Hmmm...one more question...

According to the info that was posted here a few months back, a 7-day park hopper ticket with the promotional package was going to be $285, but according to my package the tickets worked out to $336.76 each. Now I realize the other information was purely speculative, so that it was off is not surprising, but off by that much? Am I missing something? Separate tax?

 

[Marionnette]

Hmmm...one more question...

According to the info that was posted here a few months back, a 7-day park hopper ticket with the promotional package was going to be $285, but according to my package the tickets worked out to $336.76 each. Now I realize the other information was purely speculative, so that it was off is not surprising, but off by that much? Am I missing something? Separate tax?

The only place in that post that I see $285 if for 7-day hoppers and 7-day WPF&M tickets for children. The adult tickets with those same entitlements were $300. But it still doesn't explain the final price that you're coming up with.

 

[4HppyCamprs]

There has been a price increase within the last month or two.

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

I would get my tickets from Undercover Tourist because the price is $349.75 for an adult 7 day hopper and that includes tax and free shipping

 

[4HppyCamprs]

A 7 day park hopper without promotion pricing is 367.43.

22.43 of that is tax.

 

[OklahomaTourist]

Marionnette,

You are absolutely right - the $285 price was definitely a child price and I misread that information. My mistake, so that 'splains part of it. But you are also right that the "correct" adult price of $300 doesn't equate to my price of $336, even if you add 6.5% tax onto 300, which would still be only $319.50 (and my price appears to have included tax). So either that line on the post was (drastically) wrong, or something's not computing right.

I know the various Disney Offer sites that have published the current 30% promotion talk about a ticket discount for booking 4+ days along with the room, but it never says how much that discount is supposed to be. According to mousesavers.com, if I did the math right, a regular 7-day MYW base ticket plus PH should be $367.43 including tax, or a pre-tax price of $345. My price of 336.76 would work out to a 2.4% discount.

On that basis, it just looks to me like that other thread from here I referenced with the ticket prices was simply (very) wrong. A $300 7-day MYW+PH would represent something on the order of a 13% discount.

 

[OklahomaTourist]

I would get my tickets from Undercover Tourist because the price is $349.75 for an adult 7 day hopper and that includes tax and free shipping

Thanks, Shelly.

My tickets are part of a MYW package, and by the time I get done sorting through the numbers, it looks like my ticket cost was $336.76 each.

 

[Marionnette]

There has been a price increase within the last month or two.

On tickets? I don't believe that is true. The last ticket price increase was in June 2012. One is rumored to come some time in April of this year.

 

[4HppyCamprs]

On tickets? I don't believe that is true. The last ticket price increase was in June 2012. One is rumored to come some time in April of this year.

Doesn't matter what you believe. I bought tickets for our upcoming trip and they went up in price. It went from 1342 on UT to 1388 on UT. Same ticket. 6 MYW base. 3 adults 2 children. The price increase was a surprise so I took note.

OP. Disney is showing a value of 352 for the 7 day park hopper if it is part of the current promotion.

 

[Marionnette]

Doesn't matter what you believe. I bought tickets for our upcoming trip and they went up in price. It went from 1342 on UT to 1388 on UT. Same ticket. 6 MYW base. 3 adults 2 children. The price increase was a surprise so I took note.

OP. Disney is showing a value of 352 for the 7 day park hopper if it is part of the current promotion.

Disney didn't raise their prices. UT did. It doesn't matter who you bought your tickets from if the OP is talking about a package that was purchased from Disney. Disney has not raised their ticket prices since June of last year.

 

[4HppyCamprs]

Disney values the same ticket with their promotion at 282.xx

 

[4HppyCamprs]

Disney didn't raise their prices. UT did. It doesn't matter who you bought your tickets from if the OP is talking about a package that was purchased from Disney. Disney has not raised their ticket prices since June of last year.

Your right however the OPs ticket through Disney with the current promotion right now is 352.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

The basic Sales Tax rate in Florida is 6.0% and is on most goods and services. The counties have an option, by vote of their residents, to add a surtax of 0.25%, 0.5%, 1.0% or 1.5% to the state rate.

Orange County, which is most of WDW, has a surtax of 0.5% so purchases (including meals) are taxed at 6.5%.

Osceola County, which has the All-Stars Resorts and Wide World of Sports in it, has a 1.0% surtax so purchases at those locations are subject to a 7.0% tax.

In addition, counties are allowed to have a tax on transient lodging. In both Orange and Osceola Counties it is 6.0%, so all lodging except the All Stars is 12.5% while the All Stars, in Osceola County, is 13.0%.

Mike (CPA Retired)