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Fish and chips tax

Greggs may well be celebrating the end of the ‘pasty tax’ but the smaller fish and chip shops are still weighed down by VAT

Sir, So much for the level playing field and ironing out the anomalies of VAT on hot takeaway food (report, May 29). The “pasty tax” is dead; killed off by the weight of big business, while my small fish and chip shop withers and dies under the burden of 20 per cent VAT. Why is my job, and the jobs of my employees, of less importance to the economy than those such as Greggs? We are really not all in this together.

Frank A. Suhadolnik
Darlington, Co Durham

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