The prime minister has said there are “ongoing discussions” with the United States over digital services, following the deal struck with President Trump.The UK’s Digital Services Tax (DST) – a 2% levy which raises about £800m a year mainly from US tech companies – was widely thought to be part of trade talks with the US.On Thursday, the government announced the DST remains “undisturbed and unchanged” as part of the US-UK deal slashing tariffs imposed by President Trump on cars and metals.Asked if he could guarantee that there would not be any changes to the DST, Sir Keir Starmer said: “On digital services, there are ongoing discussions and various other aspects of the deal.”Speaking to broadcasters on board HMS St Albans during a visit to Norway, Sir Keir said the deal reached with the US this week “predominantly focused on steel and aluminium and reducing those tariffs on car manufacturing and reducing the tariffs there”.”On digital services, there are ongoing discussions, obviously, on other aspects of the deal, but the important thing to focus on yesterday is the sectors that are now protected that the day before yesterday were very exposed,” he added.While the new deal offers some relief to industries affected by the tariffs announced by President Trump, the government is continuing to work on a wider UK-US trade agreement.One point of tension has been the DST, which affects large multinational enterprises who run social media services, online search engines or an online marketplace for …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnThe prime minister has said there are “ongoing discussions” with the United States over digital services, following the deal struck with President Trump.The UK’s Digital Services Tax (DST) – a 2% levy which raises about £800m a year mainly from US tech companies – was widely thought to be part of trade talks with the US.On Thursday, the government announced the DST remains “undisturbed and unchanged” as part of the US-UK deal slashing tariffs imposed by President Trump on cars and metals.Asked if he could guarantee that there would not be any changes to the DST, Sir Keir Starmer said: “On digital services, there are ongoing discussions and various other aspects of the deal.”Speaking to broadcasters on board HMS St Albans during a visit to Norway, Sir Keir said the deal reached with the US this week “predominantly focused on steel and aluminium and reducing those tariffs on car manufacturing and reducing the tariffs there”.”On digital services, there are ongoing discussions, obviously, on other aspects of the deal, but the important thing to focus on yesterday is the sectors that are now protected that the day before yesterday were very exposed,” he added.While the new deal offers some relief to industries affected by the tariffs announced by President Trump, the government is continuing to work on a wider UK-US trade agreement.One point of tension has been the DST, which affects large multinational enterprises who run social media services, online search engines or an online marketplace for …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
