AITO calls for XL APD to be repaid
24.09.08
XL Leisure holidaymakers who were left out of pocket by the failure of the tour operator should have their Air Passenger Duty refunded, the Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO) has said. It estimates that around £1 million could be paid back to people who held advance bookings with the failed group’s airline.
AITO chairman Derek Moore said: ’Looking at XL’s 200,000 advance bookings for holidays and flights that now won’t happen, we estimate that 80,000 of these could be flight-only bookings. If you simply take the minimum APD payment of £10 per person, that’s a massive £800,000 that XL’s administrators, Kroll, are sitting on.'
'The likelihood is that it’s closer to £1 million in advance tax collected by XL for the Government. It’s a £1 million windfall for the administrators of a failed company and we don’t believe this is right that they should keep it. Tax collected by the airlines should be ring-fenced in some way to ensure it doesn’t simply get absorbed into the financial mess created by a failed company.’
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