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Germany plans retroactive ‘air safety’ tax bills
Just when business aircraft operators didn’t need any new unforeseen costs, German officials have started trying to collect hitherto overlooked “air safety

Just when business aircraft operators didn’t need any new unforeseen costs, German officials have started trying to collect hitherto overlooked “air safety fees” for aircraft departing from the country’s airports. The fees of €6.55 per passenger were introduced in 2004; until now they have not been enforced.

But in January Germany’s National Border Police started combing through past records from airports in Frankfurt and Berlin to assess how much is payable by operators for flights made over the past four years. According to Laura Everington, regulatory services manager with Universal Weather & Aviation, officers have started pursuing operators and demanding to know how many passengers were on each flight so that the government can issue back bills.

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