Originally Posted by
crewmeal
No chance of losing APD then? That subject seems to have died.
UK only or world-wide?
It's always struck me that APD is grossly unfair (but then a lot of taxation is). We only had APD introduced in the UK comparatively recently and it didn't take long for it to rapidly become one of the most expensive APD's world-wide.
If you're flying into a country to go spend money there, why then further tax someone for so doing?
In my mind, a bit like high car park charges in UK town centres - councils should be doing all they can to attract people in to spend money in shops, not adding a further charge to discourage them - although this is currently academic due to lockdown (but my local borough council has abolished all charges on the main town centre car park and removed the barriers to permit those who do need to go to the town centre to do so without the added burden of car park charges - alternatively it may be because they can then furlough the car park attendants and save money).