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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Ross Lydall

Businesses and airport chiefs in new call to scrap the tourist tax

More than 350 businesses have called for the reintroduction of tax-free shopping for international tourists to help boost the West End.

They were joined by bosses of Heathrow, Gatwick and London City airports, who warned London was losing out to cities like Paris and Milan as tourists abandoned the capital due to the loss of the tax break.

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