There are 10 airlines that carried out air taxi services between 2021 and 2023 at Pisa airport and which failed to pay the passenger transport tax for a total of approximately 500,000 euros.
The financial police ascertained this after specific checks.
“The specific state tax, the amount of which varies according to the route traveled and the number of passengers transported – explain the Fiamme Gialle – is among the so-called ‘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 the ecosystem. After having acquired and examined the unique declarations of the carriers filed with the handling companies of the ‘Galilei’ airport of Pisa, and through analysis activities, the financiers have found that, a given the almost 1,000 flights carried out, the airlines had not paid the tax, generating a total debt of around half a million euros, of which 338,690 as tax due and the remaining amount as an additional sanction”. Among the sanctioned flights are those coming from or going to Dubai, Istanbul, Nice, Amsterdam, Zurich, Tallinn, Stockholm. 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 sanctioned companies are almost all resident abroad (Austria, Germany, Lithuania, Serbia, Malta, Turkey, Bulgaria and Poland), except for only one Italian one. For a Serbian company, which has repeatedly failed to pay the tax on luxury flights, concludes the financial police, “the proposal for a precautionary measure for an aircraft has been submitted to the Revenue Agency, to guarantee the accrued credit equal to 120,000 euros”.
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