British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak plans to drop a tax on technology companies such as Facebook and Google because it does not raise much money and could hurt a push for a US trade deal, The Mail on Sunday reported.
Britain introduced the digital services tax in April after slow progress in global negotiations over how to tax tech giants, many of which are US companies.
The tax is expected to raise about £500 million ($654 million) a year for Britain's public finances.
That represents only a fraction of the £200 billion in extra debt the country has racked up