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Press Association 2021
The Morrisons store in Wakefield, Yorkshire which will host drive-through vaccinations from Monday as the government continues to ramp up the vaccination programme against Covid-19 (Danny Lawson/PA)
Supermarket giant Morrisons has lost a million-pound tax battle after a judge ruled a date-based snack bar is confectionery and not a cake.
The retailer claimed it had overpaid £1 million in VAT to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) over 18 types of the bars, which they said had been wrongly rated for tax, between 2014 to 2018.
In February, Morrisons appealed to a tax tribunal against HMRC’s decision to class Nakd bars as confectionery, as well as appealing against the tax body’s refusal to repay £1,000,163.39 in VAT paid on the bars.