Morrisons faces £17m bill over rotisserie chicken row

Supermarket chain Morrisons faces a £17m tax bill after losing a legal challenge over whether VAT should be charged on its rotisserie chickens. The first tier tribunal ruled that whole cooked chickens sold by the Bradford-based retailer should be subject to the standard 20% VAT rate applied to hot food.Morrisons claimed it was exempt from the so-called "pasty tax" - an added 20% VAT on hot food - as most…