Archive for July 3rd, 2025

The Hub Canada: Canada’s digital services tax problem was a long one coming

I appeared on The Hub Canada on July 3, 2025, where I discussed Canada’s digital services tax, why the dispute with the United States had been building for years, and the trade and technology-policy consequences of taxing large digital companies. The link to the video can be found here.

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Y U no pay taxes? by Duncan Cumming https://flic.kr/p/j1oNYe CC BY-NC 2.0

Canada’s DST Debacle a Case Study of Digital Strategy Trouble

My Globe and Mail op-ed opens by noting that after years of dismissing the warnings of likely retaliation, the Canadian government caved to U.S. pressure earlier this week as it cancelled the digital services tax. Faced with the U.S. suspension of trade negotiations, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced that the government would rescind the legislation that created it.

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