Current Events > Canadians approve of Netflix tax and more regulation of Facebook/Google

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Doom_Art
12/04/20 5:05:51 PM
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canadians-support-netflix-sales-tax-more-facebook-regulation-poll/

God I love this country

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Balrog0
12/04/20 5:08:37 PM
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I mean I don't like that tax specifically if I understand the way it will be used correctly. But I do agree that we should levy a sales tax on services like Netflix in general

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MaverickXeo
12/04/20 10:22:08 PM
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Why would companies based outside of Canada care about Canadian content? I can see these companies pulling support if they are 'forced' to fund Canadian content.

Also, what happens with VPN services? Can a Canadian use a VPN to bypass paying for taxes via an American Netflix account, for example? I imagine paid VPNs would qualify for a 'tax' as well? How would taxes would on these sort of things anyways - it's going to be pretty intricate to have tax profiles (or whatever they are called) for EVERY single consumer good/service provider who supplies to Canada through the internet, is it not?

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SolidShadow3
12/04/20 10:25:25 PM
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I'm lost on this; does this mean of Netflix wants to operate in Canada they have to pay to do it?

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Frostshock
12/04/20 10:27:00 PM
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Who the fuck are they polling.

The Canadian content rule is one of the dumbest ideas ever conceived and the people who thought of it should have been fired out of Parliament with a cannon.

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MaverickXeo
12/04/20 10:37:45 PM
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Frostshock posted...
Who the fuck are they polling.

The Canadian content rule is one of the dumbest ideas ever conceived and the people who thought of it should have been fired out of Parliament with a cannon.

I'm wondering the same. Every person I've heard talk about this is very much opposed (or at best; not for).

SolidShadow3 posted...
I'm lost on this; does this mean of Netflix wants to operate in Canada they have to pay to do it?

I think that's what its saying...


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Balrog0
12/04/20 10:40:42 PM
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The sales tax portion to fund Canadian content would technically be paid to the government by Netflix, but they would charge it directly to customers. That's how sales taxes work. Corporations like making money, sales taxes won't make them stop selling a product. It mentions more ambiguous corporate taxes

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