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Mike Ashley calls for ecommerce tax
Mike Ashley, the founder and chief executive of Sports Direct, has called for a tax on online retailers in order to save the high street.
Ashley, who bought Debenhams and House of Fraser this year, argued that retailers with more than a fifth of sales online should have to pay a 20% tax on those sales, forcing companies to invest in the high street.
The businessman was speaking before a select committee of MP’s investigating how to support the future of
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