Question follow-through · 34106

Digital Services Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the Digital Services Tax.

answeredTreasury

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Treasury
Tabled
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
3 Mar 2025
Answer
3 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 26 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the Digital Services Tax.

  2. 3 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    While the Government keeps all tax policy under review, we have no plans to raise the rate of the Digital Services Tax (DST).The UK remains committed to removing the DST once a global solution on the taxation of the digital economy through Pillar 1 of the...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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