Question follow-through · 12532
Artificial Intelligence: Digital Services Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has any plans to consider expanding the Digital Services Tax to include Artificial Intelligence (a) products and (b) companies.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has any plans to consider expanding the Digital Services Tax to include Artificial Intelligence (a) products and (b) companies.
25 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Digital Services Tax (DST) is 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 user-related activities. The DST rais...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Imports
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the annual value of goods entering the UK under current de minimis arrangements in each of the last five years; and what evidence was used in determining that October 2028 wa