Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance broader trade negotiations with the United States - Canada.ca
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The DST was announced in 2020 to address the fact that many large technology companies operating in Canada may not otherwise pay tax on revenues generated from Canadians. Canada’s preference has always been a multilateral agreement related to digital services taxation. While Canada was working with international partners, including the United States, on a multilateral agreement that would replace national digital services taxes, the DST was enacted to address the aforementioned taxation gap.
  • mrductape@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Well it was fun seeing Trump on the other side of the tariffs I suppose. Responded exactly as one would expect.

  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    I can’t stand that this piece of shit gets to dictate what most of the world does in their own fucking countries… It’s bad enough he’s fucking us in the US…

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      111·
      14 hours ago

      I can’t stand that this piece of shit gets to dictate what most of the world does in their own fucking countries…

      Eh, the only new thing to most of the world is how obvious he is about it.

      • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
        71·
        14 hours ago

        I was thinking about that this morning in regards to Ukraine to be honest. We in the US NEVER do something because it’s the right thing to do, we do it for business interests. Trump made that more clear with his demands for a minerals deal in writing for continued military assistance in the war against Russia. Any other administration would “know” continued access to those minerals was implied with Ukraine retaining its independence.

  • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    12 hours ago

    And by infuriated trump, they mean infuriated his election box funder attendees Bezos, Cool, Pichai. Of course I could be way off and it may be an innocent coincidence…🤑

    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      This is the second reference to elbows I’ve seen related to this topic, and I really don’t understand. Would you mind providing context?

      • Chip_Rat@lemmy.world
        English
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        20 minutes ago

        “Elbows up” is a saying/slang/expression in hockey to mean “get ready to fight” (hockey basically allows guys to throw fists between plays for some reason). It is currently being used in political ads and other pro Canada ads in reference to the current trade war.

        I was riffing off this, since (as a headline) this is just Canada rolling over for cry baby Trump. It’s not elbows up. It’s daddy Trump telling Carney off like a toddler and Carney cowering. “Elbows off the table!”

      • foggenbooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        It’s a hockey term that Canadians have adopted to mean to stand up to American influence / Trump.