Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of how the anti-treaty-shopping provisions within the Digital Services Tax proposed in the 2018 Budget would be used; and what modelling his Department has has undertaken on that subject.

The government recently finished a consultation on the design and administration of the Digital Services Tax, which sought views on the appropriate anti-avoidance provisions for the tax. A response will be published in due course. The proposed design did not include anti-treaty shopping provisions.