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Oct 4, 2009 | 6:08 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ESpen36

Question: is the luxury tax collected when passengers are just transiting through LHR from somewhere else (i.e. MAD-LHR-JFK traveling in F)? If not, how long can one stop over at LHR before the tax will be collected? 24 hours?

This is also covered in the wiki, which provides a link to the official HM Revenue & Customs APD notice.

http://www.flyerguide.com/wiki/index...rades_%28AA%29