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Those who start flying from next January should expect a higher air passenger tax. The cabinet agrees on an increase of more than 20 euros per ticket. As a result, air travelers spend more money on their journey by plane.
You currently pay a tax of 7.95 euros per flight ticket. That rate will increase to 28.58 euros from next year. Sources around the cabinet confirm this to various media after The Telegraph first wrote about it this morning.
In thick letters, the newspaper wrote that the ‘price per plane ticket is soaring due to the greenness of the cabinet’. Although some find that reporting ‘nicely horny’. They think the rate increase does not go far enough, because of the polluting effect of air travel. They would rather have read that back in the news.
Push message from Telegraaf that prices of airline tickets ‘pop up’ due to ‘greenness’ of the cabinet. Nicely horny.
Better is: ‘Despite climate change, prices only go up by a few tens’.
And: ‘It’s a shame that there are still no excise duties on kerosene.’
— Kirsten Verdel (@locuta) September 7, 2022
Flight tax should make flying less attractive
The flight tax, as the air passenger tax is also known, was introduced last year. At the time, this led to dissatisfaction among airlines, which at the time were suffering greatly from the corona pandemic. As a result, very few flights took place at that time. The tax should make it less attractive to fly.
In 2020, an opinion poll by research agency I&O Research, which was commissioned by Milieudefensie, showed that seven out of ten Dutch people (69 percent) are in favor of the introduction of a progressive flight tax. In other words: the more often you fly, the more you pay per ticket. That is not the case in this case. No matter how often you fly, you will pay 28.58 euros for each ticket from 2023.
More tax on air travel had already been agreed, but will be higher
It is not a big surprise that the flight tax would be increased. That was already one of the agreements in the coalition agreement. At that time, the parties still assumed an amount of 24 euros. But now it has been determined that that amount will be a few euros higher.
Where does all that extra money go? That should go towards making aviation more sustainable. Part of the money also goes to reducing the impact of airports on the living environment. Many residents around Schiphol have been complaining about the many health effects for some time now.
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