angelorange
16th Mar 2008, 16:59
According to Mr Darling:
" 6.38 Aviation accounts for 6.3 per cent of the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions. This is
projected to rise to as much as 21 per cent by 2050. The Government is committed to enabling
the aviation industry to expand in an environmentally sustainable way, ensuring that it pays
the external costs that its activities impose on society at large, as well as contributing fairly to
public services. For this reason, at Pre-Budget Report 2007, the Government announced that
air passenger duty would be replaced by a duty payable per plane, rather than per passenger,
from 1 November 2009. This will send better environmental signals and ensure that aviation
duty better reflects environmental costs. The Government began a consultation3 on the design
of the new duty in January and welcomes responses by 24 April. In order to strengthen the
environmental signal through taxation, this Budget announces that the Government will
increase forecast tax revenues from the new per plane duty by 10 per cent in the second full
year of operation.
6.39 The UK Government is confident that agreement will be reached on the inclusion of
aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme by 2012, which will help to ensure that right
across Europe the aviation sector plays its part in delivering real carbon reductions."
Another stealth tax?
" 6.38 Aviation accounts for 6.3 per cent of the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions. This is
projected to rise to as much as 21 per cent by 2050. The Government is committed to enabling
the aviation industry to expand in an environmentally sustainable way, ensuring that it pays
the external costs that its activities impose on society at large, as well as contributing fairly to
public services. For this reason, at Pre-Budget Report 2007, the Government announced that
air passenger duty would be replaced by a duty payable per plane, rather than per passenger,
from 1 November 2009. This will send better environmental signals and ensure that aviation
duty better reflects environmental costs. The Government began a consultation3 on the design
of the new duty in January and welcomes responses by 24 April. In order to strengthen the
environmental signal through taxation, this Budget announces that the Government will
increase forecast tax revenues from the new per plane duty by 10 per cent in the second full
year of operation.
6.39 The UK Government is confident that agreement will be reached on the inclusion of
aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme by 2012, which will help to ensure that right
across Europe the aviation sector plays its part in delivering real carbon reductions."
Another stealth tax?