10.37am – Friday 7 June 2024
Soldiers from the Provincial Command of Pisa, as part of a complex economic-financial police activity, carried out checks on 10 companies carrying out the commercial “air taxi” activity, which from 2021 to 2023 failed to pay the tax due for the carriage of passengers.
The specific state tax, the amount of which varies depending on 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 to the protection of the ecosystem.
After having acquired and examined the single declarations of the carriers (DUV) filed with the handling companies operating at the Galileo Galilei Airport of Pisa, and through analysis activities, the financiers of the Pisa Group have found that, compared to the almost 1,000 flights carried out, the aforementioned airlines had not 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 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.
