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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Morbihan, France
Programs: Reine des Muccis de Pucci; Foreign Elitist (according to others)
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Please correct me if I am wrong. APD is payable by the passenger. The airline collects this on behalf of the Government. Thus the Government would be allowing the duty paid by the passenger to be used to bail themselves out rather than pay the Government - for now. Rather than give or lend them money, they use the money that they were going to use to pay the Duty for themselves. However, it is the passenger who have paid this. Something does not seem to make sense to me.