• @[email protected]English
        10•7 days ago

        Canada’s implementation is different from other countries’:

        • It’s retroactive to 2022 - so the corps in question would have to drop a big payout in the first year.
        • It’s slightly higher than the UK tax that the yanks didn’t call out. (3% vs. 2%)

        I don’t know if I would call it stupid, but that retroactive thing seems odd. I don’t know much about corporate tax law, so maybe that’s a thing? I dunno.

        • @[email protected]
          9•7 days ago

          They were told about the implementation and the date active. They have chosen not to pay. The total to current date is due. Its like me not doing my taxes for seven years and receiving the letter from the cra that I had better bring my taxes to current year or face fines. Same deal for businesses.

        • @[email protected]
          15•7 days ago

          The idea was to give the Americans time to negotiate something before the tax came into effect. If they didn’t do it in 3 years, I don’t know why Carney thinks giving in will lead to any benefit for Canada.

          • @[email protected]English
            7•7 days ago

            I think the companies are the only ones who hate the DST. That and their puppet politicians.

            • @[email protected]
              1•7 days ago

              the parent of this thread thinks it’s stupid, and got up voted but like zero explanation. Looking at their post history they don’t seem like a bot

      • @[email protected]English
        2•7 days ago

        The percentage seemed arbitrary and it being retroactive seemed excessive and unnecessary. We depend on US content so much you couldn’t possibly function on the internet without it. It’ll force the US to limit services so we’ll be forced to use Chinese or European services and for what benefit? I use an adblocker and pirate most my stuff so no one is making money off me.

        • @[email protected]
          4•7 days ago

          The percentage seemed arbitrary and it being retroactive seemed excessive and unnecessary.

          What?! 3% We pay 8.79% on our income here. Three seems low.

          I feel like no facebook in canada would be a net positive, especially after reading “Carless people”. I don’t even think that would happen, it’s not like these companies can’t afford it, they just don’t want to set a precedent, and they spent all that money on trump!

          I use an adblocker and pirate most my stuff so no one is making money off me.

          You never use Amazon? I also use an adblocker and a pihole i think i see relatively fewer ads, i still see them.

          The one negative i can think of coming out of this is the companies passing the tax on to us, i suspect that wouldn’t happen.