{"id":157623,"date":"2020-08-23T15:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/23\/treasury-denies-it-plans-to-drop-facebook-tax-in-favour-of-trade-deal\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T15:33:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:33:48","slug":"treasury-denies-it-plans-to-drop-facebook-tax-in-favour-of-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=157623","title":{"rendered":"Treasury denies it plans to drop &#039;Facebook tax&#039; in favour of trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently introduced tax expected to raise \u00a3500m, helping to reduce Britain\u2019s huge Covid billCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK government has denied reports that it is to drop a recently introduced tax on global technology companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon, due to fears that the so-called \u201cFacebook tax\u201d could jeopardise a post-Brexit trade deal.The Treasury said on Sunday it would drop the digital services tax when there was a global agreement on how to tax big multinational tech firms, which pay very little tax in the UK and other countries in which they operate. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/aug\/23\/uk-to-drop-facebook-tax-covid-in-favour-of-post-brexit-trade-deal\" target=\"_blank\">Treasury denies it plans to drop &#039;Facebook tax&#039; in favour of trade deal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently introduced tax expected to raise \u00a3500m, helping to reduce Britain\u2019s huge Covid billCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK government has denied reports that it is to drop a recently introduced tax on global technology companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon, due to fears that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}