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This is all in order to help small shops stay alive.

Ch4HD News
said 19 local authorities are in favour of the tax.


[Local councils have asked the government
to give them new powers to tax large supermarkets
under a system similar to that already
in place in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
A group of 20 local councils have backed what
has been dubbed a "Tesco tax" in order to
increase revenues which they say would
be invested in the local community.
Derby city council has called for the
right to impose a levy on large supermarkets,
which it says could earn the local authority an estimated £2m a year.]


http://www.theguardian.com/society/2...rease-revenues