Canada is now taxing streaming services to “fund local content”
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Taxing companies not based in Canada because of a Canadian law. That's a very smart decision and I'm sure they didn't just think this all the way through and forget jurisdiction, and the ability to tax something you don't own, in a country that isn't yours, using laws they do not have to abide by.
This has all the hallmarks of the Liberal government attached to it. Watch it cost taxpayer money somehow too. That'd surely be worth it.
Fucking morons.
If a company is generating revenue in a country, that country absolutely has the right to tax that revenue. That usually takes the form of a Value Added Tax (VAT).
Canada has 4 streaming services, 5 if you include Netflix Canada. There's StackTV, RiverTV, JustWatch and Crave. Crave being the most popular because it's not tied directly to any other service. You need amazon prime to watch StackTV for example.
Taxes like this just scream "No one cares about those other things, so we have to take your money to prop up the things no one cares about."
And that's not an effective way to keep those things going.