Canada announced Sunday night it was suspending a tax on U.S. technology firms that had caused President Trump to suspend trade negotiations between the two nations, handing a major victory to the American president.
Canada scrapped a digital services tax that would have hit U.S. tech companies such as Google and Amazon after President Trump halted trade talks and threatened higher tariffs on Canadian imports.
-- NPR (@npr.org) Jun 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Why was Canada even imposing this tariff? Because Trump imposed tariffs.
~Snoofy
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The proposed Act would implement the Digital Services Tax (DST) announced in the 2020 Fall Economic Statement, further details of which were presented in Budget 2021. Annex 7 to the Budget set out the policy intention, described the main features of the proposed tax, and invited input from stakeholders.
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Canada's Digital Services Tax Act was enacted on June 20, 2024 and came into effect by Order in Council on June 28, 2024. The new legislation imposes a digital services tax of 3% on digital services revenue exceeding C$20 million. As noted below, the first payment is due on June 30, 2025.
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