{"id":28238,"date":"2024-03-25T21:58:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T21:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=28238"},"modified":"2024-03-25T21:58:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T21:58:56","slug":"misdirected-tax-revenues-are-degrading-safety-at-public-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/misdirected-tax-revenues-are-degrading-safety-at-public-airports\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Misdirected Tax Revenues Are Degrading Safety at Public Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acsf.aero\/\">Air Charter Safety Foundation<\/a> supports calls for reclaiming existing jet fuel taxes for aviation safety programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a nonprofit safety foundation focused on business\naviation, we are deeply concerned by recent calls to raise tax revenues from\nthe industry when the current tax revenues are not being appropriately deployed\nto ensure the safety and security of the US aviation infrastructure. Reaching\ninto the pockets of small business owners in private aviation will mean less\ninvestment in safety systems like Safety Management Systems, Flight Data\nMonitoring, and personnel training.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We fully support the National Air Transportation Association\nand the National Business Aviation Association\u2019s efforts to stop the\nmisdirection of funds meant for the Airport and Airways Trust Fund (AATF) into\nthe Highway Trust Fund (HTF). The Government Accountability Office has reported\nthat \u201cGAO estimates that, since fiscal year 2006, between $1 billion and $2\nbillion, or more than half of tax receipts for sales of noncommercial jet fuel,\nhave not been transferred into the Airport and Airway Trust Fund from the\nHighway Trust Fund\u201d (GAO). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Billions of dollars meant to support the safety and security\nof our public airports, and lives of our passengers and crews, are being\ndiverted to other funds.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Runway incursions are of key concern. Our nation&#8217;s airports,\nparticularly general aviation fields, are ill-equipped to prevent basic hazards\nto aircraft and passengers, including a lack of experienced air traffic\ncontrollers, lack of proper signage or on-field technology to prevent\naccidents, and more. The FAA\u2019s Runway Incursion Mitigation program has seen a\n78% reduction in runway incursions but has only enacted mitigations at 99\nairports out of the over 5,000 public airports used by private aircraft.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Air Charter Safety Foundation wholeheartedly supports\nthe need for more FAA funding to support safety programs and training of key\npersonnel like air traffic controllers and safety inspectors. However, the\ndollars contributed by the aviation community should be used for their intended\npurpose and not misdirected for non-aviation safety purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Charter Safety Foundation supports calls for reclaiming existing jet fuel taxes for aviation safety programs. As a nonprofit safety foundation focused on business aviation, we are deeply concerned by recent calls to raise tax revenues from the industry when the current tax revenues are not being appropriately deployed to ensure the safety and [&hellip;]<\/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":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238","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=28238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28239,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238\/revisions\/28239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}