Dixons Carphone shuts airport stores following axing of duty-free shopping

Evening Standard 28/04/21 Electricals retailer Dixons Carphone has decided to close its airport stores business, just months after a scheme allowing VAT-free shopping for overseas tourists was scrapped. The stores will be the first major casualty of the post-Brexit “tourist tax”, which was bitterly fought by retailers, hospitality and other tourism-dependent businesses. Paul Barnes, chief executive of the Association of … Read More