More pain on the way for UK travellers

Monday, 22 Sep, 2010 0

Travellers are likely to bear the brunt of UK environmental levies aimed at freeing hundreds of thousands of Brits from income tax.

At present, most of the money from green taxes – around £26 billion – comes through fuel duty.

Taxes on plane tickets, which currently bring in about £1 billion a year, could also go up, according to UK media.

A source close to the UK energy minister said that officials at the Department for Energy had begun a review of aviation duty



 

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