Accountants call for more ambition from government plastic tax

Government proposals to tax plastic packaging are not ambitious enough, accountancy group argues
The UK government's plans to introduce a plastic tax lack the ambition to live up to the claim of being "world leading", according to the accountancy industry. Chancellor Philip Hammond unveiled plans...
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