page_title: Pasty tax
hierarchical_section_title: Pasty tax
caption_attribution_description: A Cornish pasty made by Warrens cut in half. The filling is beef steak, potato, turnip and onion.
context_page_description: "Pasty tax" was a popular phrase used by the British press to describe a proposal in the 2012 United Kingdom budget to simplify the tax treatment of "hot takeaway food" so that Value Added Tax would be charged at 20% in all cases. The change would have increased the sale price of hot snacks such as sausage rolls and Cornish pasties sold on the premises where they were baked. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne delivered the proposal of the so-called "March Budget".
  The issue became a political controversy, described by at least one newspaper as a political scandal, dubbed Pastygate in March 2012.
context_section_description: "Pasty tax" was a popular phrase used by the British press to describe a proposal in the 2012 United Kingdom budget to simplify the tax treatment of "hot takeaway food" so that Value Added Tax (VAT) would be charged at 20% in all cases.  The change would have increased the sale price of hot snacks such as sausage rolls and Cornish pasties sold on the premises where they were baked. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne delivered the proposal of the so-called "March Budget".
  The issue became a political controversy, described by at least one newspaper as a political scandal, dubbed Pastygate in March 2012.
caption: Cornish pasty – cut
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