The Campaign for Better Transport (CfBT) is calling on the UK government to impost a tenfold increase in the air passenger duty (APD) for private charter flights. The environmental transportation group also wants business aviation to lose its current exemption from the country’s 20 percent value-added tax (VAT) and for this levy to be imposed on every aircraft movement, regardless of flight duration.
From April 2023, the UK’s APD rates for commercially-operated business aircraft will range from £78 ($94) for flights up to 2,000 miles to £601 ($721) for flights longer than 5,500 miles. In a statement issued on December 30, the CfBT demanded that these increase to £780 and £6,010, respectively, claiming that this “super APD tax” could raise around £1.4 billion annually to support investment in public ground transportation. It stated that applying VAT for every aircraft movement would raise between £79 million and £623 million per year.
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