by Mike Lewis | Sep 11, 2025
Read full briefing As US President Donald Trump prepares to fly into the UK next week for his second state visit, big tech and tax are almost certainly on the agenda. It’s been reported that the bosses of Apple and OpenAI will join Trump’s delegation, and...
by Mike Lewis | Sep 10, 2025
For a PDF version of this briefing, click here Executive summary Large online businesses – search engines, online retail platforms, social media – can generate revenues from users and customers while having limited or no taxable presence where those users and...
by Mike Lewis | Jun 5, 2025
The UK is weighing the future of its Digital Services Tax (DST), under pressure from US trade threats. From the White House to the tech sector, the DST has been described as a discriminatory ‘tariff’ almost entirely targeting large US internet companies. No-one seems...
by Claire Aston | Apr 3, 2025
The UK government’s apparent willingness to reduce the Digital Services Tax (DST) rate to placate the Trump administration and potentially secure exemptions from US tariffs represents a concerning development in UK’s tax policy. As recently reported by The...
by Alex Dunnagan | May 24, 2022
The Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR) has today published its latest report looking at Amazon,1Amazon Tax Report, CICTAR, 24 May 2022, www.cictar.org/Amazon-Tax revealing the growth and scale of Amazon’s government contracts,...
