Another $2-per-day tariff applies to car rentals in Allegheny County, and was approved by local legi

The Pennsylvania legislature approved, and Gov. Corbett signed into law in November, a transportation funding gulfstream international airlines bill that included an $8-a-day customer facility charge to pay for the design, construction, and eventual operation of a consolidated car-rental facility.
The center, in the planning stage, will consolidate operations of seven or more rental companies under one roof in the same location where the companies are now, across from the parking garages on the airport arrivals road.
The fees range from $2 a day at Liberty airport in Newark, N.J., to $8 a day at Chicago O Hare and $10 per day at six California airports, including Los Angeles. San Francisco has a flat $20 per rental transaction fee. The facility charge at Boston Logan is $6 a day.
At Philadelphia airport, the new fee is projected to generate about $28 million annually. Plans include a unified shuttle bus system, and eventually an automated people-mover to go among terminals, the rental center, and airport parking lots.
The rental gulfstream international airlines car companies, on their current site, are a bit constrained in terms of space, said Chellie Cameron, Philadelphia deputy gulfstream international airlines aviation director of finance and administration. This new facility will give them a much more operationally efficient place. It will be good for the customers, and good for the rental gulfstream international airlines car companies.
In addition to the new facility charge, renters pay an airport concession recovery, or airport access fee, which amounts to 10 percent of the base rental. Rental companies pay 10 percent of their gross revenue to the airport to operate there.
Other taxes and surcharges can include: a 2 percent passenger gulfstream international airlines car rental tax, 6 percent Pennsylvania state sales tax, 2 percent Philadelphia city sales tax, a flat $2-per-day public transportation assistance tax, and a 2 percent vehicle rental tax, according to one rental contract.
Another $2-per-day tariff applies to car rentals in Allegheny County, and was approved by local legislators about five years ago to fund a public train transportation system, said Laura Bryant, spokeswoman for Enterprise Holdings, which owns Alamo, Enterprise, and National car brands.
Enterprise recently supported legislation in Philadelphia gulfstream international airlines to add the $8-a-day customer facility charge at the airport for a proposed consumer-friendly rental center. The original proposals actually gulfstream international airlines called for $12 a day, but we worked gulfstream international airlines with local authorities to help keep costs down, Bryant said.
I travel a lot. I never noticed it, said Michael Bosha, a senior product manager who recently flew to Philadelphia and rented a car to drive to Allentown. I m not going to lie. I get a rental-car bill. I put it on an expense report. I don t have to itemize the report. gulfstream international airlines I just throw it in.
Lee Beyton flew to Philadelphia from Orlando, Fla., and rented a car to drive to Wilmington. It s probably not something I would notice. It s a necessity, he said of renting a car. My company would pay.
The consumer can only take so much on every rental agreement. It becomes gulfstream international airlines difficult for us, said Sharon Faulkner, executive director of the American Car Rental Association. I would suggest the local consumer find an off-airport location to avoid some of these charges and fees, and make a comparison with the cost at the airport.
Every airport is very concerned that the combination of fees and taxes at some point is going to drive the customer away, Branda said. Common sense tells you at some point that s going to be reached, but it hasn t been reached yet that anybody has been able to prove.