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  • Britain's planned digital tax on tech giants will proceed as planned from April, UK finance minister Sajid Javid insisted Wednesday despite US threats of retaliatory tariffs. "We plan to go ahead with our digital services tax in April," Javid said at the Davos economic summit, as US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned that Washington would look to retaliate with a tariff on EU auto imports. Javid described Britain's tax, seen as targeting especially US giants such as Amazon, Google and Facebook, as "proportionate" and "temporary". Addressing the annual World Economic Forum, he added: "It will fall away once there is an international solution." Also speaking in Davos on Wednesday, Mnuchin said: "If people want to arbitrarily put taxes on our digital companies we will consider putting taxes arbitrarily on car companies." Mnuchin has specified Britain and Italy, which has already introduced its digital levy on tech companies seen as paying too little tax, as nations at risk of US retaliation. Austria introduced its own digital tax in January, but France has suspended its plans. Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump have agreed to extend negotiations on how to proceed until the end of the year. France has said it would drop its tax if an international agreement is reached under the auspices of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD chief Angel Gurria has meanwhile urged Britain to "hold fire" on its tax, the BBC reported Wednesday. Gurria added that in the absence of a globally agreed tax, there would be a "cacophony and a mess" with "tensions rising all over the place". Former UK finance minister Philip Hammond announced plans to introduce a two-percent tax on profitable tech companies that would generate at least £500 million (590 million euros, $654 million) a year in global revenues. bcp/rfj/wai
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  • UK says to proceed with digital tax despite US threat
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