Ten air taxi companies in transit at Pisa airport from 2021 to 2023 would not have paid the tax for the transport of passengers.
The specific tax, the amount of which varies depending on the route traveled and the number of passengers transported, is part of the environmental taxes, i.e. aimed at taxing services having a negative impact on the environment and whose revenue is primarily allocated to the protection of ecosystem.
The financial police of Pisa found that, despite the almost 1,000 flights carried out, these airlines had not paid the tax on passengers’ air taxi flights, generating a total debt of around half a million euros, of which 338,690 as tax due and the remainder as ancillary sanction.
The routes covered by these flights were both intercontinental and continental, for example Dubai, Istanbul, Nice, Amsterdam, Zurich, Tallinn, Stockholm, while the planes used were twin-engine CESSNA model jets with 7/10 seats. In detail, the cost of renting a 10-seater plane from Pisa to Dubai could have reached approximately 80,000 euros.
The airlines, one of which is fiscally resident in Italy and nine abroad, in Austria, Germany, Lithuania, Serbia, Malta, Turkey, Bulgaria, Poland, will now have to pay half a million euros to the tax authorities.
In particular, against an airline flying the Serbian flag, in the face of numerous and repeated omissions in the payment of the tax on luxury flights, the proposal for a precautionary measure for an aircraft was made to the Revenue Agency, to guarantee of the credit accrued by the financial administration, corresponding to over 120,000 euros.
The operation of the Guardia di Finanza of Pisa had the aim of protecting the treasury coffers on the one hand, and on the other the air carriers who regularly pay the taxes due for “air taxi” flights, thus contributing to re-establishing compliance with the competition rules in this transport sector.
