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ACABINET minister has said holidaymakers in the region have no right to moan about new airport taxes because the taxes fund "huge" Government spending in the North East. Planned hikes in Air Passenger Duty next month and in 2010 could lead to plummeting passenger numbers as customers face up to taxes four times as high as they were in 2006.
The Journal has called on Downing Street to freeze the tax rather than hit passengers with an increase as the economy continues to struggle through the recession. Ministers have previously justified the tax as a way of off-setting the environmental damage caused by the ever increasing number of airplanes using UK airports.See the full content of this document
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North Told to Stop Moaning About Tax
But Transport Secretary Lord Adonis has added to the row by telling the region the millions of pounds ploughed into the North East can o...
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