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Darling proposes flight tax

01 November 2007

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Alistair Darling, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, has proposed a flight tax be levied on airlines rather than individual passengers. The airline passenger duty (APD) tax will be replaced by a flight tax from November 2009 and should raise about...


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