Campaigners are urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham to defend the UK's Digital Services Tax when he meets Donald Trump in New York later today.
Trump regards it as one of the European levies that create unfair trade barriers for US companies and has threatened the UK with a "big tariff" if it keeps the DST.
The tax raised £800 million in 2024-25.
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Letter lands ahead of the PM's first face-to-face meeting with the US president.
Campaigners are urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham to defend the UK's Digital Services Tax when he meets Donald Trump in New York later today.
Civil society organizations have written to Burnham and Chancellor John Healey, asking them to resist pressure to scrap the tax. Trump regards it as one of the European levies that create unfair trade barriers for US companies and has threatened the UK with a "big tariff" if it keeps the DST.
Introduced in 2020, the DST applies a 2 percent tax to certain revenues from UK users of search engines, social media services, and online marketplaces.
In their letter, signatories including Tax Justice UK, the National Education Union, 38 Degrees, Global Witness, and Cost of Living Action press the government to keep the DST and extend it to AI companies and other digital services.
The tax raised £800 million in 2024-25.
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