U.K. Collects 380 Million Pounds from Digital Tax (Correct)

April 26, 2022, 10:11 AM UTCUpdated: April 29, 2022, 12:23 PM UTC

The U.K. brought in 380 million pounds ($483 million) of revenue from its digital services tax in 2021-2022, according to its latest statistics.

Tuesday is the first time Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has published how much it collected from the tax on tech giants.

  • The U.S. government opposed the tax and others like it on the grounds that it mainly targets U.S. multinationals. It threatened the U.K. with retaliatory tariffs.
  • In October 2021, following a global agreement to reallocate a portion of the tax revenues generated from the largest businesses in the world, the U.S. signed ...

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