date:May 30, 2012
The Sun
Pasty la vista taxman: Victory as chancellor caves in over VAT on hot snacks.
His climbdown is a spectacular victory for The Suns Who VAT all the pies? campaign.
BBCs political editor Nick Robinson
If they [pasties] happen to have just come out of the oven and are hot when sold, they will still be treated for tax purposes like cold takeaway food - that is, they will be zero-rated. Simple really.
Daily Mail
Osborne eats his words on pasty tax. The hated pasty tax is to be reve