Reform of Air Passenger Duty for private jets

From:: HM Treasury
Published: 30 October 2024
Last updated: 26 November 2025 — See all updates

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Reform of Air Passenger Duty for private jets: consultation response

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Detail of outcome

This document contains the response to this consultation. This consultation ran for 12 weeks and received 1,730 responses. The document outlines the evidence received from stakeholders across the aviation sector, environmental organisations, and industry bodies, and confirms that from 1 April 2027, the government will extend the scope of the higher rate of APD to cover all private jets above 5.7 tonnes. This document also clarifies how the higher rate will be defined in legislation, and sets out the next steps, including plans to publish draft legislation ahead of implementation from April 2027.

Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks views on reforms to Air Passenger Duty on private jets.

This consultation ran from
1:30pm on 30 October 2024 to 11:59pm on 22 January 2025

Consultation description

The government is consulting on a proposal to extend the scope of the higher rate of Air Passenger Duty (APD) to all private jets, including business jets. This is driven primarily by the government’s commitment to ensuring that operators and passengers of such aircraft contribute fairly to the public finances. When APD was extended to private jets in April 2013, the higher rate was also introduced for the larger private jets, reflecting the higher class of service they provided. Eleven years later, the government is assessing whether the higher rate could be further aligned to its objectives, including whether the rate’s scope based on aircraft weight and passenger capacity remains appropriate.

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