date:May 30, 2012
esorted to the pasty and caravan measures to help fund a huge hike in personal allowances and a cut in the 50p top rate of tax.
The Independent
Take-away foods including pasties, sausage rolls and meat-and-potato pies, are to be free from the tax-mans grasp after a campaign of protest orchestrated by Greggs, the nations largest chain of high street bakers.
Financial Times
Humble pie for Osborne as his pasty tax proves too hot to handle
George Osbornes political roasting over hot pies i