Exemption from Payment of Travel Tax of All Passengers by Air and/or Sea Originating from All International Ports in Mindanao

March 1, 1995 MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 266 AUTHORIZING EXEMPTION FROM PAYMENT OF TRAVEL TAX TO ALL PASSENGERS BY AIR AND/OR SEA ORIGINATING FROM ALL INTERNATIONAL PORTS IN MINDANAO TO ANY DESTINATION WITHIN THE BIMP-EAGA (BRUNEI DARRUSALAM, INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, PHILIPPINES EAST ASEAN GROWTH AREA) For reasons of national interest, and upon recommendation of the Ad-Hoc Committee created under Memorandum Order No. 237, dated October 4, 1994, all passengers by air and/or sea originating from all international ports in Mindanao to any destination within the BIMP-EAGA (Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines East Asean Growth Area) are hereby exempted from payment of travel tax for a period of two (2) years from the effectivity of this order, unless sooner revoked, pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 1183, as amended. For purposes of this order, a Travel Tax Exemption Certificate may be secured from the Philippine Tourism Authority. This Memorandum Order shall take effect immediately. DONE in the city of Manila, this 1st day of March, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Five.