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New Chapter in PATA campaign against UK tax on travel

Monday 8, March 2010

 

New Chapter in PATA campaign against UK tax on travel

 

PATA Chapters worldwide are being encouraged to lobby British Ambassadors and High Commissioners as part of the Association’s commitment to oppose further rises in the UK government’s Air Passenger Duty (APD).

 


Chapters will reinforce PATA’s opposition to APD by highlighting the importance of travel and tourism to their own national and regional economies. With a further round of swingeing tax increases planned for November 2010, travel from the United Kingdom to many long-haul developing markets – such as those in the South Pacific – will become too expensive for many families.

 

This punitive tax increase also targets popular winter holiday and VFR (visit friends and relatives) destinations such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. All these markets, and many more, are designated Band ‘D’ by the UK government – and that means a combined travel tax of 340 pounds sterling for a family of four travelling in economy class from November 2010. Premium cabin passengers face even higher tax bills. The UK government doubled APD in February 2007 and imposed a further increase last November.

 

 

 

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