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June 11, 2020
NAAA Joins National Ag Groups Supporting Aviation Tax Relief Due to Coronavirus

NAAA joined a letter from national and regional agricultural leaders to congressional leaders underscoring the financial challenges suffered by rural-based general aviation businesses across the country due to the economic effects of coronavirus containment. It stated, “General aviation operations are down by more than 70% across the nation, and some smaller airports facing traffic declines of up to 95%. Over a thousand rural communities have already been affected by this crisis, and this is exacerbated by the fact that over 11 million Americans live in a county that does not have a hospital, and an additional 18 million live in a county with no intensive care unit.”

The letter requested that “As Congress considers a fourth relief package…fuel taxes paid by non-commercial operators also be suspended. This temporary suspension of taxes is similar to what the commercial airlines received and will assist thousands of small businesses,farms, and communities that depend on general aviation.”  Fuels used to make aerial application for farming purposes are currently tax-exempt by law due to NAAA’s past efforts, however, this tax exemption for general aviation would cover other aerial applications made that are not farming related if enacted by Congress. 

 

The letter requested that “As Congress considers a fourth relief package…fuel taxes paid by non-commercial operators also be suspended. This temporary suspension of taxes is similar to what the commercial airlines received and will assist thousands of small businesses, farms, and communities that depend on general aviation.”  Fuels used to make aerial application for farming purposes are currently tax-exempt by law due to NAAA’s past efforts, however, this tax exemption for general aviation would cover other aerial applications made that are not farming related if enacted by Congress. 

 

The letter justifies the importance that general aviation serves in rural communities to “sustain our food supply, and help … farms survey and monitor crops and farmland. In fact, each year, the agricultural aviation industry treats 127 million acres of cropland. And, general aviation across the country supports $247 billion in economic impact annually and 1.2 million American jobs.”

 

The letter was directly addressed to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Charles Schumer.

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