LONDON, May 8 (Reuters) - Britain's digital services

tax, imposed on U.S. companies like Amazon ( AMZN ), Google

and Meta, will not be changed under the terms

of the trade deal agreed between the two countries on Thursday,

the British government said.

U.S. President Donald Trump has been strongly critical of

digital services taxes, which have been introduced by around 20

countries, saying they were "designed to plunder American

companies".

Britain's tax is levied at 2% of the revenue earned by big

tech companies in the country.

"The Digital Services Tax remains unchanged as part of

today's deal," the British government said in a statement.

"Instead the two nations have agreed to work on a digital

trade deal that will strip back paperwork for British firms

trying to export to the US - opening the UK up to a huge market

that will put rocket boosters on the UK economy."