Ottawa Moves Ahead With Digital Services Tax Despite US Opposition

Published on November 30, 2023

Ottawa is moving forward with its plan for a Digital Services Tax (DST), a policy that the United States has repeatedly voiced its objections to. “We’ve talked about how important it was to make sure that web giants and large multinationals who work on the internet—like Apple, Amazon, and others—pay their fair share of taxes for the work they do and the operations they have here in Canada,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Nov. 29. The prime minister said Ottawa had agreed to pause the implementation of the tax while the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and the United States worked on a global regime to ensure the tax was fair everywhere, which was supposed to be finished by the end of 2023....

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