British Treasury denies plan to repeal digital services tax for US trade deal
Britain introduced the Digital Services Tax in April, due to slow progress on a global agreement about how to tax tech giants like Facebook
HM Treasury has denied reports claiming that the British government is planning to drop the digital services tax (DST) on tech firms - like Google, Facebook and Amazon - due to fears that it could hurt...
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