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If you can quantify, roughly, such tax differences, you'll have the core of an unassailable argument.
by everybodyknows 6y ago
If you can quantify, roughly, such tax differences, you'll have the core of an unassailable argument.
- selectodude 6y agoWell, here in Illinois, a gallon of diesel fuel is 85 cents per gallon. An international flight to Hong Kong will take a little over 40,000 gallons (but is tax exempt), so 34000 dollars worth of taxes are not paid per flight.
- p_l 6y agoJet fuel isn't tax exempt - there are both federal and state taxes to be paid on it
- selectodude 6y agoInternational fuel is tax exempt.
- p_l 6y agoI can find no data on that, and transoceanic flight have to fuel up at takeoff airport thus can't exploit lower taxes at home hub (commonly done with shorter range flights).
- selectodude 6y agoYou don't need data, it simply is exempt and has been since 1947. I used to fuel commercial flights in a previous and much better life. International jets used a special ticket that said INTL EXEMPT on them.
- uncoder0 6y agoNot meant to refute the GP argument but, in the US at the federal level the AvGas tax per gallon and gasoline tax per gallon are about the same ~ $0.19. This is probably one of those areas where subsidies and such obfuscate the reality.