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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Property giants join campaign for Hunt to restore VAT-shopping

London’s biggest property companies today piled the pressure on Jeremy Hunt to restore VAT free shopping for foreign tourists in his Autumn Statement later this month. 

The London Property Alliance (LPA) which represents over 400 developers, investors and advisers across central London, said the capital is losing ground at an alarming rate to its biggest rival European cities as a result of the so called “tourist tax”.

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