Supermarket says it is ‘conscious of our responsibilities to society’
Tesco is to pay back the £585m in business rates relief accepted from the government to help it weather the coronavirus pandemic, months after paying investors hundreds of millions in dividends after sales soared.
Tesco, which said “every penny” of the rates relief had been spent on responding to the pandemic, added that in making the repayment it was “conscious of our responsibilities to society”.
