AIR

03.14.23

On March 10th 2023, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury James Cartlage replied to the Budget Submission on tax-free shopping made jointly by the Association of International Retail and UKInbound restating that the Treasury’s belief that ending tax-free shopping would have a limited behavioural effect on decisions to visit, or spend, in the UK.

AIR wrote to the Minister that a range of data sources are consistently showing significant behaviour change as international visitors are diverting millions of pounds of spending previously done in Britain to France, Spain and Italy.

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