PA House Exempts Airplanes From Sales Tax | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-12.22.25

AirborneNextGen-
12.23.25

Airborne-Unlimited-12.10.25

Airborne-FltTraining-12.18.25

AirborneUnlimited-12.19.25

AFE 2025 LIVE MOSAIC Town Hall (Archived): www.airborne-live.net

Thu, May 24, 2012

PA House Exempts Airplanes From Sales Tax

Measure Pending In The State Senate

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a measure that would exempt airplanes sold in the state from sales tax. Aircraft maintenance would also be sales-tax-free.

The Tuesday vote came in 179-19 in favor of the tax breaks, which supporters of the bill said would make Pennsylvania competitive with neighboring states that do not have such a tax. The Associated Press reports that opponents called the exemption a "tax break for the wealthy." The State Senate has yet to consider the measure.

While opponents said the state needs the tax income from the sale and maintenance of airplanes, the bill's backers argued that the revenue would be offset by creating good-paying jobs for workers who would then pay income taxes. It also makes PA more attractive to the aviation sector of the economy.

Helicopter sales and maintenance have been exempt from sales taxes in PA since 2009.

FMI: www.legis.state.pa.us

Advertisement

More News

Classic Aero-TV: In Praise of Alabama’s Patriot Aircraft USA

From 2023 (YouTube Edition): "Ain’t Your Daddy’s Super Cub”—Don Wade Co-owned by Don and Ron Wade—the former of Don’s Dream Machines, a storied >[...]

NTSB Final Report: Cirrus Design Corp SR22

Pilot-Rated Passenger Reported That The Pilot Did Not Adequately “Round Out” The Landing Flare And The Airplane Bounced And Yawed To The Right Analysis: The pilot state>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (12.21.25): Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning Dead reckoning, as applied to flying, is the navigation of an airplane solely by means of computations based on airspeed, course, heading, wind direction, and speed,>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (12.21.25)

Aero Linx: Lake Amphibian Club This website is created and sponsored by the Lake Amphibian Club, to help spread the word about these wonderful, versatile amphibians that can land j>[...]

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (12.21.25)

“I am deeply honored to be sworn in as NASA administrator. NASA’s mission is as imperative and urgent as ever — to push the boundaries of human exploration, ignit>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2025 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC