The irregularities are consistent with “airlines implementing so-called ‘air taxis’, which offer passengers, among other things, exclusive convenience and improved billing times.
total 300 private airlines from 40 countriesas well as the 28 Italians, who had previously been denounced financial fraudAfter an investigation about “air taxis” conducted by the Financial Guard (Financial Police) at Milan Malpensa Airport (North), one of the largest airports in Italy.
After examining the tickets of about 9,000 flights and checking the transportation of 28,000 passengers, the tax inspections carried out showed that All of these companies did not pay their taxesAnd the police explained in a statement, Monday, that the total value is 2.76 million euros.
The violations correspond to “airlines that carry out so-called ‘air taxis’ which It offers passengers, among other things, exclusive comfort and improved check-in times And that they are required by law to pay a fee to the treasury for each individual passenger who uses their service, depending on the route and the distance traveled.
The defendants are financially domiciled in Portugal, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Israel, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Austria, Slovakia, Estonia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Poland, Qatar, Egypt, the United States, Denmark and Malta.
They are joined by airlines from the United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, Greece, China, Angola, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Morocco, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Monaco, Norway and San Marino.
Inspections carried out by the Financial Guard in Varese (north) “highlighted practices considered dodgy by some companies to avoid paying taxes”.
“fact, Some claimed to be excluded saying that they carried out training and training activities or skydiving flights and other recreational sporting activities, such as flying clubs or other associations operating under a tax-exempt regime, actually carrying out charter flights and carrying on, for all purposes, the commercial activity of “air taxis,” explained in the note.
In addition, it was found that the owners of 4 private aircraft and 7 helicopters had not paid the taxes imposed on their registration, totaling 620 thousand euros.
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