Retail blasts autumn statement that ‘puts final nail in coffin for high street’

Jeremy Hunt - autumn statement 2023

Source: Number 10

Despite chancellor Jeremy Hunt hailing the autumn statement as the “biggest business tax cut in modern British history,” the response from the retail sector has been uncharacteristically direct.

Another autumn statement has come and gone and the chancellor has again failed to advance any meaningful reform on retail’s perennial bête noire: business rates.

 

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