New announcement of tax reduction on tickets in Ecuador

It comes trueó a new reduction announcementón of taxes to the tickets toéprisoners on Ecuador with the aim of stimulating demand and promoting tourism.

multiple calls, Meetings and events have been held in Ecuador with the objective that the national government modifiesé, eliminate or reduce the different taxes that charge tickets toéprisoners in the país, all with the aim of making the país más competitive within an environment of strong competition with paíyour neighbors.

Some steps have been taken, although fruitless as was the reductionón of the EcoDelta for airports managed by the DGAC, terminals that do not have any operationsón international, but at least it was a step.

It should be noted, that prior to the pandemic the industry toérea contribuíto with 190,000 direct and indirect jobs that represent 3.2% of Ecuador's gross domestic product

The proposal to reduce taxes

However, a new meetingóIt was not doneó Come in THERE IT IS, ARLAE with the President of the Repúwar of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, and the Ministers of Transport and Works Púwars and Tourism to discuss various actions to increase the competitiveness of transport toéprisoner in this país, mainly in the reductionón in taxes and airport costs.

Seeking to boost connectivity, economía, employment and tourism, the Government committedó to work on the following points:

1. The reductionón of Eco Delta and Tur Power taxesístic;
2. La eliminationón of the currency exit tax for airlinesínational lines;
3. Y la eliminationóaviation fuel taxón.

¿Whaté wants to reduce?

We are going to review each of the points for a better understanding of the readers.:

1. The EcoDelta we have talked about it many times. Are the $50 dólares that only those of us who issue a ticket abroad pay. On your first attempt to reduce it, I lowered itó a $5 at DGAC airports, ¿to beá the same reductionón for concessioned airports such as Quito and Guayaquil? The lógic dutyía ser así to be able to compete all the terminals on equal conditions or beá ¿thaté propondrán some other fóformula for these specific airportsífico?
   1. The Tur Powerística is from $10 and it is paid by people who issue a ticket from abroad to Ecuador.
2. The currency outflow tax what about my handó for aeroplaneíInternational lines that fly to Ecuador, so do it tooén para aerolínational rules is fair if we want competition on equal terms.
3. ¿Sabíeven though we have a fuel tax? Well yesí, It is called the QB tax and it was created when theó the fuel subsidy in november 2011 y así the aerosolsícompanies could adjust their operations without affectingón económica for a while while prices adjusted to the new reality of the Jet A1's value, but this jamás was removed and remains until now.

¿Lowerán the tickets?

The answer is yesí, only going down the EcoDelta, that dependsá witháOnce they lower it we will be able to see a lower value in international tickets, this will dependá spaghettién of the aerosolsílines that update the values ​​that users pay and the commitment that this lower value be transferred to the user to meet the objective, what is driving demand.

¿Whaté máyes it can be done?

AúThere are things that can be done to reduce prices, that I share with you in this post from some toñthe atreás:

You can lower the price of tickets toéprisoners in Ecuador