A U.S. senator says he’s asked Prime Minister Mark Carney to “move as quickly as possible” to repeal Canada’s Digital Services Tax (DST).
“I asked that Canada move as quickly as possible to get a law passed in Parliament making sure that it’s gone permanently,” said U.S. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, following a July 21 meeting with Carney in Ottawa.
Wyden, who visited Ottawa with a bipartisan delegation of four U.S. senators, said Carney was “receptive” to passing the law.
The DST puts a 3 percent levy on revenue from digital services like streaming platforms whose revenue is more than CA$20 million, and impacts U.S. tech giants such as Google, Amazon, and Netflix. Carney vowed to scrap the tax late last month, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was ending all trade negotiations with Canada due to the DST….