Ottawa Blinks First: Carney Kills Tech Tax After Trump Backlash | iPhone in Canada
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Canada is scrapping its Digital Services Tax (DST) after U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly halted trade negotiations, blaming the tax on big tech as the reason. The move comes just before a June 30 deadline, when U.S. tech giants like Google, Meta, and Amazon were set to start paying retroactive taxes on Canadian revenue. The
  • NotSteve_
    19·
    3 days ago

    God damn it Carney has been disappointing me immensely

  • engeneEnglish
    131·
    3 days ago

    I like to think this is just a 30 day pause 🤨

    • ReannleggeEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I would love to think that to, but I am guessing at the end of the 30 days we are officially in Trump will say something like “it would be a shame if you put in the DST, are tariffs could be so much lower.” And Carney will buckle.

  • ReannleggeEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    My suggestion to everyone move off of US services on your own, I came to Lemmy to get off of Reddit (sadly I still have an account and use it occasionally, less and less as time goes by but it is still there). I stopped using Facebook a while ago other than for messenger but that is so rare that I could probably forget about my account. I was never a twitter user, I had an account to see the occasional post or something? But it is closed now and has been since Musk started kissing Donnies booty. I moved my blog off of Wordpress services and on to a Canadian host, I wanna say hosthero, with that I got an unlimited email address package so that I could replace Apple’s hide my email with random emails from my .ca domain. I had long ago stopped using Google services (minus YouTube) so nothing really changed there; except I stopped paying for youtube premium, as I have a pihole to block ads and trackers for my whole LAN I get weird ads (why I started paying for premium) so I found the app unwatched which blocks YouTube’s ads. I cancelled my Disney+, my Amazon Prime, and most of my Apple services and started sailing the high C’s again.

    I have started to self host things on the home lab, but for my passwords I cannot afford losing access to them, if I fuck up my system, so I decided to use 1Password as my password manager as it is Canadian. I have returned to a pirates life for media, and I am working very hard to get everything off of Apple. Hopefully by the end of July I will have finally done it.