Some reaction the Digital Services Tax idea just announced in the UK Budget.

Breaking BIG budget news - Hammond says govt will introduce a Digital services Tax in April 2020 aimed at tech giants (NOT an online sales tax) #tax #clegg

— Lionel Barber (@lionelbarber) October 29, 2018

Even just going by that short précis, this is a tax that Amazon wouldn’t have paid in 2014.

— alex hern (@alexhern) October 29, 2018

The nice thing is that £400m raised from taxing (basically) advertising sales is pretty unlikely to be passed on to consumers.

— alex hern (@alexhern) October 29, 2018