Friday 07 June 2024 – 10.42am
From 2021 to 2023 they would not have paid the tax due for the transport of passengers. Now, 10 airlines that carry out air taxi activities will have to pay half a million euros to the tax authorities.
This is what emerges from the controls of the financial police, carried out as part of a complex economic-financial police activity.
The specific state tax, the amount of which varies according to the route traveled and the number of passengers transported, is one of the so-called environmental taxes, i.e. aimed at taxing services having a negative impact on the environment and whose revenue is primarily intended for the protection of the ecosystem.
After having acquired and examined the unique declarations of the carriers filed in the handling companies operating at the Galileo Galilei airport in Pisa, and through analysis activities, the financiers of the Pisa Group have found that, compared to the almost 1,000 flights carried out, 10 companies airlines would not have paid the state 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 an additional sanction. The routes covered by these flights, carried out with 7/10 seater twin-engine jets, were both on an intercontinental and continental scale. Between these Dubai, Istanbul, Nice, Amsterdam, Zurich, Tallinn, Stockholm. In detail, explains the Giardia di Finanza, 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 thousand euros.
