Supermarket in hot food tax battle

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Rotisserie chicken
Rotisserie chicken

Poultry suppliers are seeking to re-open the "pastygate" tax row by backing a supermarket's campaign to halt a rise in the tax payable on hot roast chickens.

Chancellor George Osborne axed a Budget proposal to impose VAT on all hot food from next month, bowing to pressure to exclude items such as pasties which were left to cool on display.%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%

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