Retailers should not be made to foot the bill for compensating workers who lose out from the abolition of the 10p rate of income tax, the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has warned.
The ACS has written to ministers expressing its “grave concern” about plans to reform the minimum wage to compensate young workers.
ACS chief executive James Lowman said: “Retailers are facing an ever increasing financial burden and it is not right to ask them to finance the Government’s tax proposals.
“It is wrong to expect retailers to bail out the Government’s incoherent tax policies, and we will strongly oppose any move to do so.”
