Etats-Unis : proposition de taxer les passagers aériens dans le budget américain 2013 (Proposed Obama Budget Includes Higher Air Passenger Fees)
President Barack Obama in his fiscal year 2013 budget proposed to raise the aviation passenger security fee incrementally to $7.50 per one-way flight by 2018. The current fee, unchanged since it was enacted to fund the Transportation Security Administration after Sept. 11, 2001, is $2.50 per enplanement, capped at $5 each way of a passenger's itinerary. The proposed budget already has drawn criticism and Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has been widely quoted as saying it won't even be put up for a vote this year.
Obama proposes in the fourth quarter of FY 2013 to change the aviation passenger security fee structure to "a per one-way trip fee structure so that passengers pay the fee only one time when traveling to their destination." The budget calls for "incremental increases of 50 cents from 2014 to 2018," after which the fee would remain at $7.50.