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Hygiene poverty is the hidden cost-of-living trap. Why we must remove VAT on essentials to address it

Axing shelf life regulations to limit waste and slashing VAT on essential hygiene products could give millions of people caught up in hygiene poverty ‘breathing space’, argues In Kind Direct’s Michael Gidney

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