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Brexit tax refund hangover is a painful game-changer for Burberry

25/04/2023
Brexit tax refund hangover is a painful game-changer for Burberry

The chairman of London-based leathergoods brand Burberry, Gerry Murphy, has joined a number of high-profile figures who are calling for the UK government to restore tax-free shopping for tourists.

Refunds of sales tax for shoppers from overseas ended after the UK definitively left the European Union (EU) at the start of 2021; an EU-wide policy of allowing shoppers from other parts of the world to claim back sales tax no longer applied in the UK from that point on.

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