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As total voluntary payments to Treasury near £2bn, calls grow for help for hospitality trade
Lidl and Pets at Home are returning more than £130m of emergency taxpayer support after a dramatic U-turn by Tesco, the UK’s biggest retailer, triggered a domino effect that will result in close to £2bn in business rates voluntarily being paid to the Treasury.
Eight major high street names, including the country’s six biggest food retailers Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi and Lidl, have all pledged to pay their business rates bills for this year.
