Municipal tax | Checkpoint

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Eco-tax for iguacu, 90pesos/pers, good for 30days. Didn’t got waved in but you also pay the price at hotels, (pr.day)

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It is now $400 pesos pp.. she said for 30 days..

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They charge only foreigners. We did not pay cause we told them we were going to cross to Brazil and we did not have the cash. Even
it’s not so much for the foreigners, there are travelers who works hardly to go on with their trip/lifestyle and in any case we are leaving money for many others activities and commerce so this tax seems only something to charge more and more cause for some of you it’s only one euro. 😕

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Rosmarie&Peter
They charge here an official „eco-tax“ 150 pp for foreigners and it’s okay!
It‘s a shame how travelers who can achieve traveling for many months in poor countries always are trying to trick not to pay for anything. And always it MUST be cheap! What an attitude!

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250pesos per person now. They give you a ticket that is good for 10 days. (Or maybe it was 30 days?) The only cars they don’t select are Argentinian cars. They pull everyone else aside.

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Pay 150pp Pesos Tax... but they are picking people not everyone, if you are lucky, they dont charge you.

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Eco-tax $150 per person for 30 days. Friendly guys

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If you say that you go directly to Brasil and you talk only english to them, you do not pay any money. It is only a tax in case you want to fo eventually into the park. Even though nobody ever asked you for the payment ticket.

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This is not a scam it is an eco tax all out of state people pay. Only people from this state doesn’t have to pay.
It does seems to a on off thing as they don’t even stop everyone. We passed through there twice and didn’t get stopped.
If they stop you its going to be 90ps.
Added a news paper clip from today about this.

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Inflation: 90pesos...and it’s legit. If you pay here, you don’t pay at your hotel...who will charge you this if you don’t keep receipts. We sleep in our van...so what’s 90 pesos to keep the town clean? It’s good for 30 days, so keep the receipts to pass from city to the falls and back...

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Unfortunately, all the comments below are not true. We were stopped together with many other tourist cars. I was convinced by comments here that it is a scam. Again, unfortunately it is not. Now, excluding guys from eco-tax, there was a real police (I spent more than a month in Argentina to figure it out) and they told us it's real tax. We paid and than asked in tourist information (in the center). They confirmed it is something new, just for this city. Another thing, when you walk around the city you can find rubbish bins and people cleaning streets with the same "eco-tourism" sentences. Again, it's just another way to rib off tourists but seems 100% legit...
We tried to talk to officers and say we don't want to pay, they asked us to turn around. I think if you want to avoid it, you need to come to the city after 7 PM or early morning before 7.

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Regardless of whatever other people have said , this is genuine enough. You pay this tax also when you check in at hotels , 50pesos/pers. (Pr day at hotels) We didnt got waved in but we paid the tax at our hotel booked for christmass.
Stop being so suspicious and pay that goddamn 80cent ...

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Please don’t fall for this trap!

We were stopped and the lady asked for money. I told her we were heading for Paraguay and don’t need to pay this ‘tax’.

Another guy was called to the scene. While I was waiting I saw a big tourist bus stopping behind me. The busdriver had a big bunch of cash in his hand, assuming he has been collecting it on forehand. He gave this to the ‘officer’ who gave him a bunch of tickets. For his ‘work’ the busdriver then received some cash.
This is all a scam.

The other guy came to me asking to pay the tax. I again told him that this must be a joke. I don’t pay. This is not a National Park I want to enter or something. They let me go after 2 minutes.

They collect the money from only tourists. Pay some people who help them (like the rent a cop policemen standing there also and busdriver(s)?!) and put the money in their pockets.

If this really was the law they would not have let me go. They would have said; I don’t care where you are heading for but this is the law and you need to pay.

So don’t pay!!

You will spend enough as a tourist in this area.

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No one pulling people over today at 1.30pm (lunch/siesta time)

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Tax is currently 50 pesos per person. They told us that if we stay in a hostel in Puerto Iguazu, we pay there, if we go to Brazil, we have to pay the tax here.
And it is turist tax, they only stop foreign cars.
When we told them, that we don't have argeninian pesos (which was true, we did only a day trip from Brazil), they let us go.

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What a joke! Got pulled over and then a guy with an "eco-tourism" shirt came over asking for 50 pesos. Bunch of rent-a-cops checked my passport and asked questions like where did I enter argentina etc.. Just said we were going to Brasil then a whole lot of "no entiendo". Eventually they got angry and let us through.

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we don't stop, and nothing's happend , they move their hand....just pass

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Passed this place three times and we were only pulled over on the third, on our way back into Puerto Iguazú from visiting the falls. We just said we were on our way to Brasil and that did the trick.

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Hello
Today they stop us with our motorhome.
They want 30 pesos by persons and with the children we are five.
I say no, I pay nothing because it's not a real taxe.
We say that we come from the national parc of Iguazu and I have pay a lot of pesos for a tourist...!
After a policeman is arriving and telle us to pay but not for the children.
At the end it became nasty between us and we pay only for one person...
They give us a ticket .
But they was 5 or 6 persons and they was angry...
I try to put a picture of the ticket.

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When we passed yesterday afternoon as we arrived from the south we were waved through, probably due to the volume of traffic. The second time coming from Iguazu Falls, we were pulled over and asked if we were here as tourists. We told them we were heading to Brazil. Then they asked if we had been to Iguazu, so we said no and told them we were coming from Posadas. That was enough to satisfy them and they told us to continue without paying. So basically don't give them any info that you're here for any form of tourism and they'll let you pass..

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We have been told that this place gives false information such as that some campings are closed to convince you to go somewhere else where they get a commission. The actual tourist info is downtown - calle Brañas

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the tax is now 25 pesos per person. Nothing for the car

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We passed the place several times during daytime without problems. Once they just waived us through the other time going north we told them that we are heading to Foz de Iguacu/Brasil and they just let us go.
As we read all the bad stories before we planned as a defense to ask them for a formal and official receipt when required to pay the fee. However we couldn't test whether the strategy might work successfully.

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they do not charge motorcycles. just go. also all the other checkpoints south of here are safe. they seem to check only cars or big rigs. toll roads are free for us. look for a small Lane to the very right of the toll. if there s no Lane just queue behind a paying car and take off when they do.
only in Buenos Aires you have to pay the toll, which is 10p anyway.

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We passed there today.
They pulled us over as we are obviously tourists.
We denied paying but still they didn't want to let us go. They didn't let us go when we told them we are going to foz. So we closed the window and left. Nothing happend.
Best thing is just not to stop. It is not about the money but please don't pay!!

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They only ask you to pay if you say you stay in the community, not if you say you go on to Foz.

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yesterday in the afternoon, they wasn't here. This afternoon, they are, with policemen who they us to stop. I say i didn't want to pay. They say i must pay. I say no. They say ok, you can go...
We meet some other french people few minutes after, a policeman asked they their nationality and then say, you had to go, it's not for you...

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Still there and supposed to be 20 pesos pp. Please don't pay, even the local are on strike against that on sundays. It's a scam sponsored by the police, the money go in there pockets. You can choose to not stop when asked for, they Will do nothing.

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there were a bunch of people in high visibility jackets that pulled us over and asked for 20 pesos for municipal tax. we told them politely that I have never paid to enter a town before as well as some general complaining so they let us go without paying. they were friendly and polite, but are not police. not anything to worry about but it is always good to have a heads up when people are going to pull you over.

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