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1. 11:33 AM - trips to Italy looking expensive (PHILLIPS I)
2. 12:52 PM - SV: trips to Italy looking expensive (Sidsel & Svein Johnsen)
3. 01:06 PM - Workshop space - off topic (Paul McAllister)
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| Subject: | trips to Italy looking expensive |
*December 23, 2011
Italy's emergency budget plan won final approval in Parliament as Italy
struggles to tame surging borrowing costs.*
*The emergency budget is introducing also a tax on Italian registered
private aircraft and on non-Italian registered private aircraft having
spent more than 48 consecutive hours on Italian territory.*
*Private aircraft are defined to include all aircraft other than State
aircraft; aircraft dedicated to commercial flights, air work aircraft,
FTO=92s aircraft, aero clubs aircraft, newly built aircraft until sold and
rescue aircraft. Non Italian corporate aircraft operated privately would -
for example - be affected, with the tax escalating to over euro 300,000
annually for large corporate jets.*
*The tax is to be charged at the following annual rates (by reference to
MTOW): 1) up to 1.000 kg., euro 1,50 per kg; 2) up to 2.000 kg., euro 2,45
per kg; 3) up to 4.000 kg., euro 4,25 per kg; 4) up to 6.000 kg., euro 5,75
per kg; 5) up to 8.000 kg., euro 6,65 per kg; 6) up to 10.000 kg., euro
7,10 per kg; 7) above 10.000 kg., euro 7,55 per kg; For helicopters, the
tax is doubled per Kg.*
*The tax is due by the registered owner, the beneficiary or the lessee. The
technicalities regarding actual payment are to be detailed in a separate
regulation to be issued within 60 days.*
*The actual legality of the tax, especially for non-Italian registered
aircraft, is highly questionable and unless amendments or mitigating
measures are introduced within the implementing regulation, subject to
judicial challenges nationally and at EU level.
*So, based aircraft avoid it if they are in an aeroclub.
But visitors are hit. This will kill GA visits to Italy, of couse.
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| Subject: | trips to Italy looking expensive |
>aircraft having spent more than 48 consecutive hours on Italian territory
>The tax is to be charged at the following annual rates (by reference to
MTOW): 1) up to 1.000 kg., euro 1,50 per kg;
>But visitors are hit. This will kill GA visits to Italy, of couse.
Not a good sign, that is for certain. I appreciate that little is yet known
about this possible tax, but one way to read the above quote from this
evening's posting is that if the tax is assessed on an annual basis, than
hopefully it will be pro-rated for part of a year. For Europas, it would
in such case be Euro 2.70 per day (after the first 48 hours).
Until further information is available, I will therefore keep a trip to
Italy in my schedule for this coming summer.
On this note: What I - and many others - really find unreasonable, is the
fee charged by Belgium for flying through their airspace. Any news on this
subject, David J?
Happy New Year to all - may we have only sunshine and tailwinds this coming
year!
Regards,
Svein
LN-SKJ
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| Subject: | Workshop space - off topic |
Hi All,
I brought my Europa home from the airport to do some work on it over the
winter. Although it fits in my workshop it was always a tight fit so I
thought my solution to the problem might give folks on the forum a bit of a
smile.
Do not archive.
Paul
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