Flights in private jets, with capacity for up to 19 passengers, will pay a carbon tax of two euros per passenger, starting July 1, according to an amendment to the ordinance, published this Friday in Diário da República.
According to the ordinance signed by the Minister of Infrastructure, João Galamba, “the scope of the carbon tax was modified to cover the consumer of air travel on aircraft with a maximum capacity of up to 19 seats.”
In July 2021, the Government introduced a carbon tax for passengers traveling by air, sea and river, amounting to two euros per person, “as compensation for the Emission of polluting gases It’s too much negative environmental externalities caused by these means of transport”.
In December of last year, a law was approved that expanded the scope of this tax, “determining the need for the Government, as of July 2023, to introduce a carbon tax for air travel consumers on aircraft with a maximum capacity up to 19 passengers”. seats, with a scoring mechanism based on the capacity of the aircraft and the distance flown by the flight.
This is an initiative presented by the PAN in parliament, as a proposal to modify the State Budget for 2023, which the Government accepted.
According to the ordinance published this Friday, the tax falls on air travel consumers and is collected and settled “by the owner of the aircraft if it is not being operated by another entity”, “by the aircraft operator in other cases of non-commercial flights” or “by the airlines that operate the flights and market them”.
Flights in fully electric aircraft, transport services covered by public service obligations, State flights, training flights, medical emergency flights carried out within the framework of the integrated system of medical emergencies are excluded from the payment of the fee. , search and rescue flights and rescue flights. Departures after landing for technical, meteorological or similar contingency reasons.
Revenues related to the carbon tax are transferred by the National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC) to the Environmental Fund.
Source: Observadora
