It depends on whether you re-heat it when you get home, apparently. Or whether it is sold in a bag labelled hot food. The supermarket chain Morrisons has lost a fiendishly complex court battle over whether its rotisserie chickens should be subject to VAT or not. It will have to stump up an extra £17 million to the Treasury. But hold on. This is crazy. The last thing the UK needs right now is what amounts to a stealth tax on spit-roasted poultry. 

This is crazy. The last thing the UK needs right now is what amounts to a stealth tax on spit-roasted poultry

The tax lawyers will no doubt study the small print of the judgment for months.........

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