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Treasury contacted retailers after discovering plans for public letter rebuking Reeves

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Retailers are understood to have been contacted by the Treasury to make the case for Rachel Reeves’s tax raid ahead of a public letter that warned over changes announced in her maiden Budget .

The letter was organised by the British Retail Consortium ( BRC ) and signed by 80 companies.

It warned the industry faces 7bn in increased costs as a result of changes to employers’ National Insurance and a higher minimum wage rise.

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English

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