Question follow-through · 58152
Social Media: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment has she made of the potential merits of increasing the level of taxation on social media firms.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment has she made of the potential merits of increasing the level of taxation on social media firms.
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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17 Jun 2025
Answer published
The UK is already levying the Digital Services Tax (DST), a 2 per cent tax to ensure that providers of search engines, social media platforms, and online marketplaces pay UK tax on digital services that reflects the value they derive from UK users. The DS...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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