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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Archie Mitchell

Starmer ‘offers US tech firms tax cut’ in last-ditch bid to dodge Trump tariffs

Sir Keir Starmer has reportedly offered big US tech companies a major tax break in a last-ditch bid to dodge Donald Trump’s damaging tariffs.

The prime minister is prepared to lower the rate of the government’s digital services tax (DST) in a bid to win concessions from the president as a global trade war looms, it has emerged.

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