Doubling of short haul Air Passenger Duty
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The UK Chancellor has announced that air passenger duty for passengers departing on short haul flights from the UK will double from £5 to £10 from February 2007.
Is this really to help avoid climate change or just to way to increase tax revenue? I personally don’t think that it is high enough to discourage people from flying it could add up to a nice little earner for the Treasury? I would feel a lot happier if that additional tax revenue were to be earmarked for environmental protection spending.
What do you think? Will this extra cost make you think twice about flying to Europe for leisure?
December 11th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
[...] Will you be checking your carbon emmissions and paying an appropriate offsetting fee? Will this just be too much on top of the increase in Air Passenger Duty I do wonder if it might be better not to take the flight in the first place? Wouldn’t it be great if the increase in APT was going to the schemes like the Carbon Neutral Company? [...]