T&E response to European Commission consultation on passenger VAT rules

March 22, 2017

Unlike other transport modes, aviation is fully exempt from VAT. This distorts the internal market, and amounts to a subsidy of €7 billion per annum to this fossil-intensive sector. T&E calls for this exemption to be ended.

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