Scrapping Air Passenger Duty could help create jobs.

Originally introduced as an environmental measure, but has become another way of government taxing peoples leisure activities.

Fuel is taxed in a similar way in so much that almost 2/3 of the cost of a litre of fuel in UK is duty or tax.

I still don't really get it. I've looked online to find answers, but it still sounds so confusing. Passenger tax, bedroom tax? 'Tis all greek to me, seriously.

Don't have very strong feelings about Air Passenger Duty but:-

- when we've only got around 20 years before we reach tipping point on world climate change, any tax which reduces the amount of flying done is A Good Thing

- the tax mainly hits those with the means to pay (which makes a very nice change!) rather than middle and low income people

- I can't think of any new tax that would hurt less to replace it (the UK can't afford to give up

Air Passenger Tax is pretty straightforward. If you want to flay long haul, then it will cost you about

They use to be a tax called window tax The problem in the UK is, everything is taxed to the hilt.

Not forgetting the Hearth Tax and the Brick Tax which was in force from 1784 until 1850, the Wallpaper Tax from 1712.

On the Window Tax, people just bricked up windows. The brick tax was based on number of bricks used, so brick makers started to make bigger bricks to get round it and Wallpaper Tax was on papers that were painted or stained to be hung on walls, decorators got round that by hanging plain paper and stencilling the pattern on afterwards.

Governments have often introduced idiotic taxes for which people have always found a way round.

Saw a quote on Twitter the other day on avoiding the bedroom tax, "Turn your spare room into a Starbucks, you pay no tax and neither do they!"