The White House’s new focus on corporate aviation is drawing backlash from an industry that says it supports manufacturing.
The Biden administration is looking to the skies for government revenue, scrutinizing corporate jets as it tries to get big companies to pay more in taxes and to crack down on rich tax evaders.
From Taylor Swift to Fortune 500 chief executives, private air travel has for years been portrayed to exemplify lavishness and excess, putting it on the radar of Democrats who want to rid the tax code of incentives that promote its use.
Companies have long benefited from laws that allow them to write off the cost of jets more quickly than commercial airlines can, and to pay less in fuel taxes. Included in the $5 trillion of tax increases proposed by the White House were plans to target corporate aviation and ramp up scrutiny of executives who use company planes for private trips.
President Biden raised the taxation of corporate jets at his State of the Union address this month and at a campaign event in Philadelphia last week as he laid out his ideas to make big companies “pay their fair share.”
At a Senate hearing on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen praised the Internal Revenue Service for embarking on a “new initiative to end abuse of corporate jet write-offs.”
The ideas have drawn swift backlash from the corporate aviation industry, which argues that the proposals unfairly undercut American companies that rely on private planes to allow their executives to more easily visit factories and remote offices.
Put some teeth on this.
Private jets should have a 10,000% fuel tax. Fuck you and your impatience.
Tie it to the exact current cost to remove the same pollution from the environment… right now that might be more than 100x… fuel tax
Recreational flight using fossil fuels should have been banned 10 years ago.
IDK why you got downvoted.
We should have hybridized planes forever ago.
Electric motors are more capable than combustion engines for the purpose of rapid acceleration for takeoff. Maybe a battery weight limitation? Idk.
Maybe a battery weight limitation?
I’m no aviation engineer, but as far as I understand it that’s exactly it. The more weight, the more thrust you need, which means your fuel (or in this case, stored energy) needs to be very efficient in thrust per kg.
Yeah but electric motors are WAY more capable of thrust than combustion.
Things can go from 0 to black hole maker in an instant. We all know what jet engines sound like firing up, and it isn’t explosive.
I’m also no engineer though. Well, not that kind anyways.
Batteries are way heavier than gasoline. It’s not even close in comparison.
Stored energy in fuel is considerable: gasoline is the champion at 47.5 MJ/kg and 34.6 MJ/liter; the gasoline in a fully fueled car has the same energy content as a thousand sticks of dynamite. A lithium-ion battery pack has about 0.3 MJ/kg and about 0.4 MJ/liter (Chevy VOLT).
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201208/backpage.cfm
Because /politics is full of neoliberals just begging to be radicalized into fascist pigs.
So uh going home for Christmas is banned but uh Flying 45 people to have a meeting that could’ve been an email is “OK”?
Or is recreational flight flying for fun - like the Blue Angels?
Recreational flying would be the doctor who owns a Cessna and is just taking it from point A to point A… There is no point B.
No, that should be banned too lol
Fuel + mileage. I don’t know shit about planes but they have to have something akin to an odometer.
Skyometer
Do yachts while you’re at it.
This is yet another positive baby step by Biden. But come on Joe, let’s just rip the bandaid off and do it: Corporate tax at 50%, and no fucking loopholes to offshore earnings. Do it you coward, that’s all the tax revenue you’d ever need to actually be FDR 2.0. Do you care about your legacy or not?
He would end up with his brain on the outside of his head like kennedy.
No way. Big corporations like … uh … Boeing would never just kill somebody to protect their billions of dollars of earnings.
Yeah this is just time wasting on bullshit political punting. Saying something while doing nothing. I’m so exhausted with political theater.
Private jets should not exist. As a source of tax revenue or otherwise. The fact that there are tax write offs rather than penalties for using them is just mind boggling.
Oh no - this is sure going to upset all the temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Cue another meltdown by Muskiboi.
It’s not like private jets are gonna get any less use even if taxed 1000% on everything, so ez money. Even the poor lobby workers are gonna get some work this way (sarcasm, also because usually payed by results). Most of actual private jet users aren’t gonna notice.
Taylor Swift about to become a Trumper
nope, she’s been buying carbon credits to offset her usage for her entire recent tour.
of course that does not mean she is beyond criticism, but this specific type of joke should probably die.
Do carbon credits even do anything? I tried to look up more details about them but it seems even Bloomberg is skeptical. The better solution would be to stop unnecessarily flying everywhere
i agree with that article, for sure. i just don’t think swift is a conservative is all 👍
While going after anything one could label “private jet”, keep in mind that nobody in his or her right mind owns a private jet. They have invested in a charter company and now have exclusive or preferred access to charter a certain plane. But they don’t “own” it.
What they need to get after is fuel consumption per person-kilometer or similar metrics.
Or simply ditch that aerospace agreement from the 1940s that grants tax-exempt status for commercial airliner fuel. Worldwide.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
From Taylor Swift to Fortune 500 chief executives, private air travel has for years been portrayed to exemplify lavishness and excess, putting it on the radar of Democrats who want to rid the tax code of incentives that promote its use.
President Biden raised the taxation of corporate jets at his State of the Union address this month and at a campaign event in Philadelphia last week as he laid out his ideas to make big companies “pay their fair share.”
At a Senate hearing on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen praised the Internal Revenue Service for embarking on a “new initiative to end abuse of corporate jet write-offs.”
The ideas have drawn swift backlash from the corporate aviation industry, which argues that the proposals unfairly undercut American companies that rely on private planes to allow their executives to more easily visit factories and remote offices.
“We haven’t seen any real justification on why an important and essential American industry is being targeted for tax increases,” said Ed Bolen, president and chief executive of the National Business Aviation Association.
He said many executives were required to fly on corporate airplanes, even for personal travel, and argued that finance departments tended to be overly cautious about how they reported aviation taxes because of the risk and cost of getting them wrong.
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