Pay us to collect taxes,’ say Flybe

Monday 14th April 2008, 12:00AM BST.

BUSINESSES acting as tax collectors should be paid for doing so.

That is the view of a senior airline official who says that the aviation industry collects a fortune for the Treasury and but gets nothing back for the expense incurred.

Flybe’s general manager for market development Ian Taylor said that airlines have to collect duties such as passenger landing charges and then hand the money over to the States.

However, he said that if the collection work was a commercial transaction, the business would expect to receive some type of reward for the work.

He was speaking ahead of the introduction of the new three per cent goods and services tax that will come into effect on 6 May.

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