TREVISO – The Fiamme Gialle of the Provincial Command of Treviso, as part of the customs and anti-fraud surveillance activity carried out at the “Antonio Canova” airport of Treviso, have identified 91 air carriers which, for the year 2023, have failed to pay the tax due for air taxi flights, causing damage to the Treasury of 137,500 euros.
The object of the investigative attention is a “niche” of air transport, i.e. non-scheduled flights, carried out with aircraft attributable to rental companies, with a few dozen seats, usually used to have greater comfort and save time, avoiding delays, queues at boarding and baggage claim.
As many as 1,310 passengers passed through the Treviso airport, distributed across 395 air taxi flightsfor which the tax has not been paid, which is equal to 100 euros for routes of less than 1,500 km or 200 euros in the case of longer journeys, and must be paid, for each journey with departure and/or arrival on national territory, by the individual passenger who uses the transport service directly to the carrier, who in turn is obliged to pay it to the State.
These are foreign operators, based in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United States of America, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary.
To identify the “ghost” passengers were the Fiamme Gialle of the Treviso Group which, after having acquired, from the handling companies active at the “A. Canova” of Treviso, the declarations filed by the carriers used for air taxi flights have cross-referenced the data with the payments made to the State Accounting Office.
The airlines that did not pay the state tax were thus discovered, in order to offer more competitive prices to entrepreneurs and tourists. In addition to the evaded tax, penalties of around 41 thousand euros will now also be applied, equal to 30% of the evaded sums.
The inspection activity follows a similar one, concluded in the two-year period 2022-2023: following similar checks, the financiers of the Treviso Group had, in fact, identified another 162 air carriers which, in the tax period from 2017 to 2022 , had caused a shortfall in the state coffers 267,340 Euros, not paying the state tax due on transitat the Treviso airport, of another 2,446 passengers, distributed across 718 air taxi flights.
