Dutch spearhead nine-country efforts for a European tax on flying

The Netherlands and eight other EU countries have called on the European Commission to introduce a tax on flying to help offset the environmental damage caused by air travel. Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark and Bulgaria have thrown their weight behind Dutch efforts to tax air travel, which unlike road and train transport escapes taxes on fuel. Compared with other forms of transportation, flying is undertaxed and underpriced, even though air travel is the source of around 2.5%...