Rotisserie chicken sales fall 18% - is VAT to blame?

New figures from the British Poultry Council show that sales of rotisserie chicken have been seriously affected by the government’s introduction of VAT on hot foodstuffs from 1st October 2012.Before this date approximately 40 million rotisserie chickens were sold a year in the UK. In the 23 weeks since the ...

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