Compensation for delayed flights Discussion Area

JPears

In a word, no. Sorry. Its French ATC who are responsible, not the airine, on this occasion.

NoviceAngel

EDIT -JP quick off the mark this luchtime....

ivanoe wrote: »

Our flight from London to Verona was cancelled 19 hours before departure due to an air control strike,

Are we entitled to a compensation?
If yes, what kind of compensation are we entitled to?
Bus and train fares only or a fixed amount (which would cover for the half extra day off work)?

This is a tricky case because re-routing was to a different destination ..

It's quite an easy one to answer, NO I'm afraid your not entitled to any compensation under EC261/2004.

You will have to use your travel insurance, where you might have a claim.

EC261 does NOT cover Extraordinary Circumstances such as a strike.

Sorry,

NoviceAngel

nathanmnm

Hi, BA just agreed to pay compensation for a 4.5 hour delay from LHR to ORD about 2 weeks ago (they were very quick turning round the claim within 24 hours which impressed me). My question is simple, do I need to pay tax on the compensation?

NoviceAngel

nathanmnm wrote: »

Hi, BA just agreed to pay compensation for a 4.5 hour delay from LHR to ORD about 2 weeks ago (they were very quick turning round the claim within 24 hours which impressed me). My question is simple, do I need to pay tax on the compensation?

EDIT :- please see correction below by Vauban

This hasn't come up before, but to my knowledge it is looked at by HMRC as income, so yes it has to be declared in an annual tax return..

I had to do this when I accepted an out of court settlement with BT, I phoned HMRC at the time and they said it was taxable.

I believe the above to be correct, if I'm wrong then I'm happy to be corrected.

Cheers,

NoviceAngel

NoviceAngel

Just done a quick Google and it would appear that only personal injury claims are NOT taxable?!?

Strange laws we have in this country

Vauban

nathanmnm wrote: »

Hi, BA just agreed to pay compensation for a 4.5 hour delay from LHR to ORD about 2 weeks ago (they were very quick turning round the claim within 24 hours which impressed me). My question is simple, do I need to pay tax on the compensation?

No. You do not.

NoviceAngel

Vauban wrote: »

No. You do not.

Happy to be proved wrong by PtLV

Then that means the Tax helpline got it wrong because I did pay tax on my out of court settlement with BT :mad:


I'll have to look at getting that back because it was quite a bit of money.

nathanmnm

From what I could deduce (from google) it seems compensation issued by a court (in this case the EU courts) doesnt usualy incur tax however I could only find difinitive info on personal injury compensation and investment compensation (where only interest incurs tax). Nobody seems to reference EU flight delay compensation directly in the UK however a number of other countries (e.g. sweeden) definatly dont tax it. I was going to assume that people would know if it WAS taxable hence the question.

I was wondering if anyone had a link to something official?

Given how many people claim it and the fact that there are websites who specilise in claiming it for you (one claims to have claimed over 4M pounds) you would think someone would have asked the question before

NoviceAngel

nathanmnm wrote: »

Given how many people claim it and the fact that there are websites who specilise in claiming it for you (one claims to have claimed over 4M pounds) you would think someone would have asked the question before

Yes, it is s very good question, and probably one that someone receiving compensation doesn't really want an answer to!

Vauban seems quite sure of the correct answer though so I would go with that.

Vauban

My understanding is that as a principle statutory compensation awarded by a court is generally not taxable, except where it relates to matters of lost income, etc, where you would have paid tax on that in the first place. But I'm not an expert, and perhaps someone has a definitive authority on this.