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Sainsbury Warns of Returning Inflation After Labour Tax Hike

  • Supermarket to face £140 million bill from higher payroll tax
  • ‘Barrage of costs’ cannot be absorbed, says CEO Roberts

A J Sainsbury Plc supermarket in Guildford, UK.

Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
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J Sainsbury Plc warned of a return to higher inflation in UK supermarkets after the Labour government hiked payroll taxes in last week’s budget.

Britain’s second-largest grocer said it faces a £140 million ($181 million) bill from an increase in national insurance contributions, the main revenue-driver in Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’s more than £40 billion of tax increases.