Canada is now taxing streaming services to “fund local content”
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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.