11 March 2007

Osborne has got it right on Airline taxes

I am really disappointed with the commentary on the Conservative ideas on Airline taxation. The policy is everything that Gordon Brown's horrendous taxation is not.

The Conservatives have pledged that their duty will hit frequent fliers, not one-off trips; they have pledged to tax individual flights based on emissions so that cleaner airlines pay less taxes; they have also pledged to reduce other taxes to compensate for this increase.

It is strange that very few of the commentators are choosing to look at it from this perspective. Moreover, none of them are choosing to say that this policy addresses every singe criticism that was levelled at Gordon Brown following the introduction of his flat rate tax.

This is *good* conservative policy, nothing more, nothing less.

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