Autumn Statement APT

Autumn Statement Airport Passenger Tax Changes for Children.

Transcript:

“Hello there, just an hour ago or so, the Chancellor, George Osborne, finished his autumn statement. Its December 3rd and it's the sort of mini budget, the pre-budget and subject to this video is air passenger tax APT.

Right this is the: when you get on a plane you get taxed.  Now what they've announced is, what George Osborne announced, is with effect from 1 May 2015 APT will be moved to 0 for children below the age of 12 and then from 1 March 2016 that age bracket will go up to 16-year-olds.

So children 12 and below no problem, with effect from 1st May 2015 and then 1st March 2016 rising to children below the age of 16.

Now what’s not been covered and certainly it's not in the small print of the Chancellor's speech and indeed the budget statement that I've read is what people who have already paid?  What if you’ve already pay for your tickets but you don't depart until let’s say 8th June next year?  So that's not clear yet, whether airlines will be required to refund or not what's going to happen.

I would imagine that that is what they would be required to do in terms of: if they've charged for tax and that tax is no longer applicable then they should refund.  So I can't say for definite but if you haven't paid for your tickets, no problem, then you'll see a marginal reduction if you got children below the age of 12 and obviously 16 the year after.  However, if you have paid already for your tickets, nothing in the small print, but I would guess because is it is a tax levied by government that the airlines collect then I would imagine that they will look to get that turned tax refunded if you’ve already paid for your taxes.  But watch this space, I don't know yet so that’s APT, the airport passenger tax. Thanks very much for watching”.