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Fair taxes on private jets and superyachts could have raised up to £2bn last year, Oxfam finds
A private jet operated by Aeropartner, comes in to land at Stansted Airport in Essex

FAIR taxes on private jets and superyachts could have raked in £2 billion last year to help communities devastated by climate change, an Oxfam report revealed today.

Britain has the second-highest number of private jet flights in Europe, trailing only behind France.

Oxfam found that there were 192,052 private jet flights to and from Britain last year, not including those for medical, government, or military purposes.

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