Fake Candy Stores Cost Taxpayers £8m

Saturday, 25th February 2023 at 6:07pm

According to the Evening Standard website, candy store operators on London’s Oxford Street have defied a council crackdown with the number of the ‘eyesores’ returning to record levels.

There are currently 29 US-style candy and souvenir outlets on Europe’s busiest shopping street and during one swoop £215,000 worth of fake goods were seized.

Council leader Adam Hug has claimed the stores have cost taxpayers at least £8 million in unpaid business rates and has described them as “an eyesore” on Oxford Street.

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