APD Up Again

Increase from April 2014 as follows


Band A Y = £ 13 (no change) Other than Y = £ 26 (no change)
Band B Y = £ 69 (+ £2) Other than Y = £ 138 (up £4)
Band C Y = £ 85 (+ £2) Other than Y = £ 170 (up £4)
Band D Y = £ 97 (+ £3) Other than Y = £ 194 (up £6)


Band B = US/Canada

There are two APD Bands

Reduced = Economy
Standard = anything other than economy


See page B19

Not good, but not as bad as the fuel surcharges...

Slipped that one in didn't you Georgie - another easy tax on squeezed people and businesses.

Slipped that one in didn't you Georgie - another easy tax on squeezed people and businesses.

Never mind, a penny off a pint... :w

Slipped that one in didn't you Georgie - another easy tax on squeezed people and businesses.

Never mind, a penny off a pint... :w

Ahh glass half full then - we should celebrate that in Manchester!

Slipped that one in didn't you Georgie - another easy tax on squeezed people and businesses.

Never mind, a penny off a pint... :w

Ahh glass half full then - we should celebrate that in Manchester!

I think we will need to drink a lot to make up for the APD
Oh well best give it a go y)

Slipped that one in didn't you Georgie - another easy tax on squeezed people and businesses.

Never mind, a penny off a pint... :w

Ahh glass half full then - we should celebrate that in Manchester!

Was in a pub last night and a customer asked when the prices would go down and the landlord said that there was no way he was going to knock a penny off the price and in fact prices would be going up in a few weeks to cover the increase in the rates (just under 3%) and that the brewery has intimated that they would be increasing their prices due to supply chain cost increases.

Was in a pub last night and a customer asked when the prices would go down and the landlord said that there was no way he was going to knock a penny off the price and in fact prices would be going up in a few weeks to cover the increase in the rates (just under 3%) and that the brewery has intimated that they would be increasing their prices due to supply chain cost increases.

Lol, I wondered if the end consumer would see the "savings" or whether they would be simply lost in the paper shuffle n(

Slipped that one in didn't you Georgie - another easy tax on squeezed people and businesses.

Never mind, a penny off a pint... :w

I'll be celebrating that in the local Wetherspoons, tonight.

After commisserating the fact they put all the pints up by 20p on Monday night.

They are just moving the deckchairs.

1p off pint is also combined with axing the beer duty escalator or whatever you want to call it. So probably a bigger deal that it sounds.

I still insist airlines do themselves no favours with a government obsessed with 'hard working families' - whatever they are. Press releases about how much APD adds to a family of four's Caribbean holiday left me cold and I am sure many others.

With APD hidden in a plethora of other fees and fuel surcharges, its impact on the cost of the ticket is lost. Sure, for my Virgin flights in November I am paying £134 in tax, but I also pay a £319 fuel surcharge. And I find that far more annoying.