Sainsbury's will hand back the £410million it's saved thanks to the Government's business rates holiday. The move comes as pressure mounted on other supermarkets to follow Tesco's lead, which yesterday said it was handing bak £585 million of rates relief because others needed the money more than it. "Having considered this issue, particularly since the announcement of a second national lockdown in England, the Board of J Sainsbury plc has chosen to forgo the business rates relief on Sainsbury's stores granted by the UK Government and the Devolved Administrations since March," Sainsbury's said in a statement.
The supermarket added that it welcomed the news in March that businesses would be given a rates holiday for 12 months. But as lockdown
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