BENGALURU: To give a boost to the aviation industry, the Civil Aviation Ministry has written to several states which levy a high sales tax on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) to slash them. “The ATF cost accounts for 40 per cent of operational cost of airlines. The big challenge in this is the tax on it. We have now asked states to bring down this tax so that the burden on airlines is reduced,” Pradeep Singh Kharola, aviation secretary, said in Bengaluru on Saturday.
Kharola was delivering
the keynote address during an industry meet in the city in connection with Wings India 2020, an international exhibition and conference on civil aviation, which will be held in Hyderabad in March.
