Greggs attacks the pasty tax

2012 sales to date up 4.3 per cent as baker lambasts government.

By New Statesman Published 16 May 2012
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Greggs CEO Ken McMeikan (C) joins bakers demonstrating against the government's proposed decision to impose VAT on hot takeaway snacks in London. Credit: Getty Images.
Greggs the baker has hit back at the government's proposed "pasty tax" in its interim management report today, calling the proposed changes "unworkable" and warning it would "give rise to many new anomalies and further uncertainties."
 
 

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