In his pre-budget report the Chancellor doubled air passenger duty, increasing the cost of tickets by £10 per person. This is a modest increase and is unlikely to put people off flying. Brown must known this, and if he didn’t Michael Meacher certainly did. Now, Meacher really is passionate about the environment and he reckons that the increase would have to be more like £30 to dissuade people from flying. It then occurred to me that the recent rise in duties can’t be anything other than a tax-grab. Brown has increased the duty to just the right level, keeping numbers of air passengers up and thereby maximising revenue worth an extra billion quid a year. Clever.
28/01/2007 at 09:09 |
Gordo’s looking quite sinister there isn’t he?
“Give me your money!, GIVE ME YOUR MONEEEY!”
28/01/2007 at 11:54 |
That pic of Gordo’s from 97. Much greyer and wrinklier now
02/02/2007 at 12:16 |
[...] blogged previously that the increase in air passenger duties looks a lot like a tax grab. Brown increased the tax, not [...]