United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 58152
Social Media: Taxation
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9 June 2025
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17 June 2025 · Answer
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Taxation
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17 June 2025
Summary
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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9 June 2025
Written question
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.
Source: Commons
17 June 2025
Answer
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...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-06-09/58152
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1810656
- uk · wq-1810656 · source updated 17 June 2025