TREVISO – Ghost passengers, 1,310 people flying in air taxis at Treviso airport. A major operation by the financial police led to the identification of 91 air carriers who, for the year 2023, 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, namely i non-scheduled flightscarried out with aircraft attributable to companies rentalwith a few dozen seats, usually used for greater comfort and to save time, avoiding delays, queues at boarding and baggage claim.
The numbers
They are well 1,310 passengers passed through the Treviso airport, distributed over 395 flights air taxis, for which the tax has not been paid, which is equal to 100 euros for the routes less than 1,500 km or 200 euros in the case of longer journeys, and must be paid, for each journey with departure and 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.
The operation
The “ghost” passengers were identified by the Fiamme Gialle of the Treviso Group who, after having acquired, from the handling companies active at the Antonio Canova airport, the declarations filed by the carriers used for the air taxi flights, cross-referenced the data with i payments made at the State Accounting Office. The airlines that had not paid thestate taxin 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 eurosnot paying the state tax due to the transit of others at the Treviso airport 2,446 passengersdistributed on 718 air taxi flights.
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