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
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."
Latest tweets
More from New Statesman
- Online writers:
- Steven Baxter
- Rowenna Davis
- David Allen Green
- Mehdi Hasan
- Nelson Jones
- Gavin Kelly
- Helen Lewis
- Laurie Penny
- The V Spot
- Alex Hern
- Martha Gill
- Alan White
- Samira Shackle
- Alex Andreou
- Nicky Woolf in America
- Bim Adewunmi
- Glosswitch
- Kate Mossman on pop
- Ryan Gilbey on Film
- Martin Robbins
- Rafael Behr
- Eleanor Margolis
- Tools and services:
- Polls
- Predictions
- Archive
- Magazine
- PDF edition
- RSS feeds
- Advertising
- Subscribe
- Special supplements
- Stockists

