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The Air Rescue Service is committed to ensuring that the contributions of patrons can be used in full for the air rescue and not subject to VAT.Disappointed, she takes the decision of the Federal Court noted that the sponsor contributions are still subject to VAT.

Since June 2008, the VAT paid on the Rega patron contributions in the amount of about 5.5 million francs annually. The Rega sees an unfair taxation of a Swiss Solidarwerks that works thanks to the patronage without government funding.

The Rega is a private, nonprofit foundation safely for many decades, the air ambulance. The State deprives her of VAT money that should be used for air rescue.

In the interest of accident and ill patients, the Rega relies on political means to continue the taxation of contributions to military patrons.