Airlines for America (A4A) today urged Congress to reject the proposed tax hikes on air travel that are included in the President\u2019s FY2021 budget request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The suggested tax hikes would cost passengers an additional\n$2.7 billion per year on top of the $26 billion they paid in 2019. These are\nunnecessary tax increases that would jeopardize the unprecedented choice,\naccess and affordability that consumers enjoy today. Nearly 90 percent of\nAmericans have flown on an airline some time in their lives, and 42 percent of\nthem have family incomes under $75,000, according to a recent A4A survey.\nIncreasing taxes in any form would burden families with higher costs to fly,\ncurtail job growth and limit air service options to small and rural communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
U.S. aviation and its customers are already subject to 17\nfederal aviation taxes and fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Specifically, the administration\u2019s FY2021 budget request\nproposes an average of $2.7 billion per year in higher federal aviation taxes\nand fees on the traveling and shipping public, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Passenger\nSecurity Fee Increase. The budget proposes to increase the passenger security\nfee 18 percent, from $5.60 to $6.60, in FY2021 and then an additional 25\npercent, from $6.60 to $8.25, in FY2022. This proposal would increase taxes on\npassengers by an estimated $618 million in FY2021 and $22.3 billion between\nFY2021 and FY2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Customs User Fee Increase. The budget proposes to increase\nthe Customs Inspection User Fee (CUF) 34 percent, from $5.89 to $7.89. This\nproposal would increase taxes on passengers by an estimated $431 million in\nFY2021 and $2.4 billion between FY2021 and FY2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Immigration User Fee Increase. The budget proposes to\nincrease the Immigration Inspection User Fee (IUF) 29 percent, from $7 to $9.\nThis proposal would increase taxes on passengers by an estimated $376 million\nin FY2021 and $2.2 billion between FY2021 and FY2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A4A also called on Congress to end the practice of diverting\nsecurity fee funds away from security to instead pay for deficit reduction.\nSince 2014, approximately $1.3 billion per year in TSA fees has been diverted\naway from its intended purpose, which is to pay for aviation security\nscreening. Similar diversions have also been used for Customs and Border\nProtection (CBP) fees. Instead of increasing taxes, there should be a focus on\naddressing the annual diversion of billions of dollars of security funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Airlines for America (A4A) today urged Congress to reject the proposed tax hikes on air travel that are included in the President\u2019s FY2021 budget request. The suggested tax hikes would cost passengers an additional $2.7 billion per year on top of the $26 billion they paid in 2019. These are unnecessary tax increases that would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-of-columbia","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14814,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14811\/revisions\/14814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}