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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThese additional costs damage tourism, penalise SMEs trying to expand overseas, disadvantage remote regional cities, and chip away at labour mobility.\u00a0 They may also affect airlines\u2019 abilities to offer less profitable routes, which can reduce regional cities\u2019 attractiveness as a business location.\u201d<\/p>\n
UHY Hacker Young further explained, \u201cAlthough taxes on flying are often billed as \u2018green taxes<\/i>\u2019, in UK, as elsewhere, the revenue raised is not ring-fenced for environmental protection projects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe UK government has recently taken some steps to reduce the high costs facing air passengers. APD for under-12s was abolished in May of this year. As of April 1, charges on journeys over 4000 miles were also reduced. Levies on journeys between 2000 and 4000 miles, however, increased.\u00a0 In Northern Ireland, pressure to scrap APD entirely in order to help Belfast airport compete more effectively with Dublin airport was rejected by the Northern Ireland Executive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTaxes and compulsory government charges imposed per passenger on an economy class flight by 20 governments around the world.\u00a0 It also analysed additional charges imposed on a per passenger basis by airport operators.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn short the most expensive taxes are for long haul flights departing from a Russian airport, where unlike many other countries, airline tickets are subject to sales taxes.\u00a0 The highest taxes of any G8 economy are in the USA, which imposes \u00a315 ($23) worth of taxes on a short haul ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n
All of this is ADP confusion is damaging to tourism industry fatally. Not only that it also affects local business and impairs labour mobility. All of these are counterproductive in general.<\/p>\n