Restoring tax-free shopping would deliver multi-billion pound sales boost
The UK economy could gain an extra £3.7bn a year and create more than 73,000 new jobs if tax-free shopping was reinstated for tourists, ministers have been told.
A report by the Association of International Retail (AIR) has called on the government to scrap the Rishi Sunak government’s 2021 decision to get rid of VAT rebates for tourists – which was widely criticised at the time as a ‘tourist tax’.
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