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Air Passenger Duty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will abolish air passenger duty for domestic flights.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 24 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 26 Jul 2024
Answer: 1 Aug 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

24 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will abolish air passenger duty for domestic flights.
26 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Aug 2024
Answer published
Air Passenger Duty (APD) applies to airlines and is the principal tax on aviation, since tickets are VAT-free and aviation fuel is untaxed. In April 2023, reforms to APD took effect, which included halving the rate of duty charged on domestic flights. The...

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