Osborne admits 'green' Air Passenger Duty is just a revenue-raiser

In a leaked letter, George Osborne wrote: ?APD is fundamentally a revenue raising duty and currently raises around ?2.5billion per year.?

Treasury officials acknowledged that the Chancellor’s comments in his leaked letter ? describing APD as ?fundamentally a revenue raising duty? ? represented Government thinking.

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