House Reps. Introduce TICKET Act to Force Ticket Sellers to Disclose Base Price and Fees

US lawmakers recently introduced the TICKET Act, which aims to force ticket sellers to display upfront and at point of sale, all fees imposed as charges. The bipartisan bill formally titled as “Transparency In Charges for Key Events Ticketing” (TICKET) Act came around after the sale of Taylor Swift’s Era Concert Tour became “the last stroke that broke the camel’s back” so to speak. The TICKET Act forces ticket sellers and brokers to indicate the ticket base price and all the additional charges that increase the cost of a ticket. Such information must also be shown in events advertisements and …

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