Paul Barnes

Chief Executive Officer

Association of International Retail (AIR)

Paul Barnes is Chief Executive Officer of the Association of International Retail (AIR), and a strategic advisor to the New West End Company and Global Blue. He has 30 years' experience as a political lobbyist and was Managing Director of Weber Shandwick's Public Affairs Division, the biggest in the UK.

Speaker Events

WEBINAR 20: An Update on the Tax Free Shopping Situation

26th Nov 2020

HMT announced in September this year that the VAT RES (tax-free shopping) scheme will end on 31 December, as the UK exits the European Union. In this session our panelists give their analysis of the impacts to UK business and Chancellor’s response so far to calls from the retail, hospitality, airline and manufacturing sectors to overturn this decision.

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