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BATA response to HM Treasury APD announcement

6 December 2011

Commenting on the announcements made by HM Treasury today about Air Passenger Duty (APD) Simon Buck, Chief of Executive of the British Air Transport Association said:

"Despite the chorus of voices united against the highest rates of taxation on flying in the world, today's announcement by the Treasury still leaves Britain's hard pressed families facing a double inflation increase in the tax from next April.

Rather than carrying out consultations such as this, the Government should have funded an independent study of the effect of Air Passenger Duty on Britain's tourism industry and on the national and regional economies of the UK. The Government claims to support tourism and inward investment but is in effect damaging both through a bizarre combination of high taxation and bureaucracy.

The result of the continued imposition of this tax is that Britain will lose tourist revenue from overseas, will lose inward investment from foreign business and lose British jobs."



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