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BA Cabin crew didn't fail the exercise - it wasn't a pass/fail exercise.
HMRC believed that the balance of allowances that were consumed downroute compared with the amount of allowances taken home was allowing tax to be avoided that should have been collected.
The review was to allow us as pilots and cabin crew to prove he counter argument that we spent the vast majority of our allowances. If we hadn't responded at all, we would all be paying your high taxable rate.
Balpa explained the situation pre-review, (just as Bassa did) and once it was completed, and the receipt based spending was shown to be low(just as it was for cabin crew), HMRC came to both groups with their new taxable rates.
Balpa then moved up a gear, engaging in a year of negotiating, research on tax law, and statistical analysis with HMRC. Many months of laborious and stressful work by Balpa resulted in us achieving an agreed 3% increse in taxable allowances.
What did Bassa do to achieve the 20/30/40% increases in taxation for cabin crew?
Exactly the same circumstances, different reps.