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AIN Blog: Just Say No
Flying is going to become more costly and constrained, if the U.S. government persists in efforts to tax business aircraft operators.

Flying is going to become more costly and constrained, if the U.S. government persists in efforts to tax business aircraft operators and limit their freedom to operate in the name of security, not to mention FAA actions that are causing more work for everyone.

Writing in the Inside Washington column in the National Air Transportation Association's second-quarter 2012 Aviation Business Journal, Eric Byer, NATA v-p of industry and government affairs, pointed out that government agencies are circumventing the rulemaking process by issuing guidance material that becomes "considered mandatory even though technically it is not."

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Matt Thurber
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