Canadian government is set to introduce a new law, where it will give special powers to CRTC, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications, to regular tech companies in Canada. Government said that it will provide updates to the new legislation, to give more power to CRTC, which will include letting CRTC issue licences, fine companies that do … Continue reading CRTC To Regulate Tech Firms like Facebook and Google in Canada
Quebec’s government has decided to start collecting taxes on digital sales, such as Netflix subscription, this year even though company that sells the services or goods does not have physical presence in Canada or Quebec. Update: Saskatchewan has also recently followed Quebec by collecting taxes on “transmission, broadcast or distribution of data, programming or entertainment” … Continue reading Quebec’s Fight Taxing Out of Province Digital Sales
After months of negotiations Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau have finally come to an agreement and there is much to be celebrated about this new deal when it comes to Canadian online shopping. Canadian online shoppers will be pleased that now they will be able to ship more goods into Canada without paying duties as … Continue reading New NAFTA increases online shopping duty free for Canadians
Netflix recently announced that it will be investing around half a billion dollars into Canadian media production. You would think Canada and its provinces would be happy? Turns out not so much for Province of Quebec, mainly French speaking province. Quebec provincial government has decided that they now need to tax video services across the … Continue reading Quebec Punishes Netflix Users with Tax
Netflix – watch out. Province of Quebec is after you. After Canada announced half a billion of dollar of investments from Netflix – Quebec has decided that is not enough and it needs to act by itself. Finance Minister Carlo Leitao according to Lapresse said Netflix is a taxable service, and Quebec will ensure to … Continue reading Quebec to Charge Tax on Netflix
