Originally Posted by
strowger
If I were in HM Treasury I would be looking at IAG's profit, targeting the tax on LHR, and bringing transit passengers in to the scope of it. It's difficult to argue that privileging foreign passengers over UK ones on congested national infrastructure which creates noise over central London is good public policy.
It might impact UK workers though (not that they seem to care, but still)..
Anyway, I wouldn't have minded another tax hike if it meant investing the output in, say, improving NATS or some other bit of the national infrastructure that is crumbling, but funding a tax cut feels exceedingly self-serving.