Germany introduced the taxation of airline tickets. From the perspective of sustainable tourism, this appears to be at first glance a meaningful story, but how much sustainability is to bring this tax?
The new air traffic control, according to the distance of the destination staggered. That is, the further one moves away from Germany, the higher the tax. To make it possible to make simple, one has at the Government agreed that there are three tax rates. Short distance to be 2500 km is in the future with 8 € taxes. 6000km proposes to you 25 € on the ticket price up and over 6000km 45 € due. The tax applies only to flights starting in Germany and not on flights to Germany from abroad. Also, the entire air cargo traffic is exempt from taxation!
Now I sit down with a yes this blog for a sustainable and environmentally friendly tourism, and I see a tax on air travel quite as useful and necessary to, but with the implementation of the federal government, I can not agree.
Why is taxed, for example, not even the freight traffic?
If you have fear of competitive disadvantage or was the pressure the lobby groups in this area is too large? Or freight transport is more environmentally and climate-damaging as passenger traffic?
If the ultimate goal or the first stop abroad as a basis of taxation taken away?
I pay in the future when I am with Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines fly non-stop to Singapore € 45 and if I fly with Emirates via Dubai to the same destination only 25 € taxes? This will not appear on the bill, would be complete nonsense, a plane used up in the start, yes the most fuel and thus is an intermediate stop in almost all cases, a detour burns more fuel. Such a flight would have to be taxed higher.
Why is taxed at all the tickets, not the kerosene?
The direct taxation of kerosene would reach that airlines would focus even more on modernizing their fleets and provide them with the most efficient engines. So you would have a controlling effect. This would affect all aircraft movements, but also fly all aircraft with kerosene. Of course, such a tax would be imposed, but at least across the EU as a major part of air transport in Europe stop at national borders, this would be at least a reasonable approach.
All in all, the federal government has thus invented and introduced a new tax, which is in my view have no positive effect on the climate control. It has been introduced to plug the holes in the federal budget. The law has to technical mistakes, and preferably the air cargo industry massively. There were no signs of climate change, here is no sustainability to be achieved.
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