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Belgium raises taxes on short flights. The country is also investing in more efficient approach procedures. Flights less than 500 kilometers from Brussels are becoming more expensive: Belgium is increasing taxes on short-haul routes. Take-offs and landings with private jets as well as older and noisier ones
International airline tickets are not subject to taxation due to numerous international agreements. Austria's Transport Minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens) has announced that in future there will no longer be any sales tax on cross-border rail traffic. The ÖBB promise that the savings
Austrian customs, which employs around 1.600 officers, had around 700.000 operations and controls last year. Officials received about seven million declarations. In 2020 there were "only" 4,2 million registrations. The tasks
The Vida trade union warns of further social dumping and is calling on the government to finally move on measures to secure locations and jobs. Eurowings Europe, which is part of the Lufthansa Group and is based at Vienna Airport, is doing it now
A few days ago, the EU announced an EU-wide minimum tax that should gradually reduce kerosene from 2023. This is probably not going fast enough for the domestic aviation representatives: Austria joins an initiative with Belgium
The European Commission would like to start taxing environmentally harmful aviation fuels. At least one draft of the package of measures, which is intended to benefit the environment, gives the impression of this. Air traffic has so far been spared the EU fuel tax. Not for long.
Germany is already in the middle of the election campaign, because the elections to the Bundestag are due in autumn 2021. The Greens, among others, are pressing for flight tickets to be artificially made more expensive and for short-haul flights to be banned if possible
The federal government is working on a solution that complies with EU law to oblige airlines to pass on passenger-related taxes and fees to end customers. State Secretary Magnus Brunner's credo is: “The taxi ride to the airport is not allowed
A traveler who wanted to fly from Vienna-Schwechat to Cairo on May 7, 2021, was relieved of 97.510 euros by Austrian customs. The spicy thing: According to the agency's dispatch, the man in Austria is supposed to owe tax
While Austria's transport minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens), who describes herself as climate protection minister, is committed to making short-haul flights as expensive as possible, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is taking a different approach: domestic flights
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