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Best Canada Day gift we could get, I hope he doesn’t go back on it
The part where “in 7 days we will tell Canada what they have to pay” is going to be interesting.
Can we just ban them?
Thank God, he’s finally shuttin’ up
[Canada] has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country," Trump said.
Taxing Meta, Apple, and Amazon for business they do in Canada is an attack on the United States?
We didn’t “just announce” it materialized three years ago and makes total sense to have in place from Canada’s POV. Dumbass Trump is wrong and lying or both - yet again.
Not sure what applies o amazon. They do have advertising/sponsored listings, but don’t know if tax applies on overall business.
Amazon Web Services is the world’s most popular cloud provider and where a massive chunk of their revenue comes from. Lots of people don’t seem to know about it, but their logistics arms is almost like a side hustle compared to AWS
No problem. The boycott continues. If they don’t pay tax then they are stealing from us, so torrent away.
Jokes on them. Been torrenting their shit for a couple decades now.
Bye Felicia
A TACO says what?
Now’s a pretty good time to end Microsoft licenses and other crap ass US platforms 🥰
Now is the time to introduce higher Digital Services Tax rate.
I will be so pissed if Carney or anyone negotiating folds on anything. The US started all of this shitstorm. We (Canada) are the aggrieved party in this situation, we were following CUSMA, the US broke that agreement. Fuck the USA. Fuck concessions to the USA. They can fuck off into the Sun. I don’t want or need Netflix, amazon, airbnb, Uber, google, azure, microsoft, apple. I could care less if those companies pull out of Canada.
I’ve been petitioning the councillors of my rural municipality to do this. I’ve sent them articles of much larger governments doing the same worldwide ceaselessly. I’ve emailed, called and texted (small towns are beneficial sometimes) every councillor personally. I have given them the number of several local computer techs who specialize in Linux systems and Foss software.
I encourage you all to do the same. Municipal governments are a great place to start pushing this trend and saving them money and adding security in the process.
Yep! I was wondering when my work was gonna shift away from using Microsoft, azure and SharePoint .
I’ve been waiting thirty years
The government and a lot of other companies are absolutely incapable of not using Excel and Azure services. It’s possible they could teach people new tools but databases, tables, excel files, VBA stuff, SQL etc… Is just not going to get changed. Alternatives are way too expensive and the sheer amount of work to make sure every single ETL rule is followed would be absolutely insane. The cybersecurity alone will make it a no go.
No AI will not solve this.
You don’t need excel, you could convert to libreoffice spreadsheets, there may be a few functions that need adjustment, but I have found its pretty much feature for feature. There are also so many SQL derivatives mariaDB, mySQL, postgresSQL. There would be a few pains, but as Europe has already realized we need data and software sovereignty
Postgres is very cheap.
VB is garbage and anything using it should have been scrapped decades ago.
Why is it only 3%, what is it about being digital that avoids standard tax rates?
3 % of billions of things is more than 15% of millions of things.
Sure but you take 3% out of my $10 and I have $9.70.
But take 15% out of your $100 and you still have $85.
They can pay their taxes.
Thats false equivalency. Billions is the larger number and since a billion is 1000x a million, it would be 3% of their $10000 and 15% of your $10. So its their $300 tax vs your $1.50 tax. Sure they are still better off, however (un)fair that may be, but it was more in tax than you actually hold, by a wide margin.
Or course we could, and should, argue it should be reveresed, but thats just yelling in to the wind at this point.
The US has been really flaky lately. Have you tried rebooting it?
We can’t do “business” with an unstable idiot.
It’s best we ignore him, and keep working with countries who aren’t lead by a total shit stain.
As an individual, I’m happy continuing to rapidly cull any American ties I have with brands and services.
Try telling Carney, or your MP, that. My MP is a back bencher do nothing, Brad Rediccop, who has said that he has no plan on doing anything (in more professional words).
Good. Fuck off.
Great news. But my Trump-BS-translator is going haywire: since this is a lie like everything Trump says, next week Carney is going to have some sort of deal with Trump.
Please don’t say that, I am scared Carney with bend over for him if it goes that fast! Luckily e do have a few agencies pushing for this.
I’ve never wanted the Digital Services Tax more than right now, lol.
