Pisa, 7 June 2024 – Trips certainly not within everyone’s reach air taxi, on board twin-engine Cessna model aircraft with 7/10 seats for destinations such as Dubai, Istanbul, Nice, Amsterdam, Zurich, Tallinn, Stockholm. To be clear, the rental of a ten-seater plane to Dubai amounted to around 80 thousand euros. Too bad tax evasion was just around the corner.
The Pisa Financial Police discovered tax evasion during an inspection against ten companies Of air taxiwho from 2021 to 2023 failed to pay the tax due for the passenger transport: this is a tax whose amount varies according to the route traveled and the number of passengers transported and which falls within the environmental taxesi.e. aimed at taxing services with a negative impact on the environment.
After having acquired and examined the declarations of the carriers filed with the handling companies operating at the airport Galileo Of Pisa the financiers have noted that, compared to the almost a thousand flights carried out, the airlines had not paid the tax, generating a total debt of approximately half a million euros: 338,690 euros as tax due and the remainder as sanction accessory.
The airlines are tax resident in one case in Italy and in nine abroad (Austria, Germany, Lithuania, Serbia, Malta, Turkey, Bulgaria and Poland).
Against a Serbian airline, in the face of numerous and repeated omissions in the payment of tax on luxury flightswas advanced toRevenue Agency the proposed precautionary measure of a aircraft to guarantee the credit, over 120 thousand euros.
