As many as 36 air taxi companies, operating at the General Aviation of Olbia Costa Smeralda airport, accused of not having paid one million euros of tax on private flights.
The investigation is by the financiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Sassari.
The soldiers of the Olbia Group have concluded an activity of analysis and comparison of data on the approximately 3,300 aircraft movements involving 10,000 passengers transiting through the Olbia airport , reconstructing all the flights made between 2017 and 2020.
The checks revealed, the Fiamme Gialle report, that " 36 air taxi companies, most of them from the Community and the rest from outside the EU , had not complied with the payments relating to the transport of passengers , generating an overall debt to the Treasury equal to 1,486,810 euros, of which 1,143,700 as tax due and 343,110 as ancillary sanction equal to 30% of the amount due pursuant to the legislation that regulates the sector».
According to the legislation governing the taxation of luxury cars, boats and planes, " passengers using non-scheduled planes must pay the company that manages the air taxi a tax of 100 euros per passenger in the case of a journey of less than 1,500 kilometers and 200 euros for longer distances».
This amount must then be paid by the airline to the state.
(Unioneonline/D)
