
U.S. senator in Ottawa urges Carney to quickly repeal digital services tax
OTTAWA — A U.S. senator is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to move quickly on repealing the digital services tax.
“You all, to your credit, said you’re not going to collect it. I asked that Canada move as quickly as possible to get a law passed in Parliament making sure that it’s gone permanently,” Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon, told media Monday following a meeting between Carney and a bipartisan delegation of four U.S. senators in Ottawa.
“The prime minister was receptive to that,” Wyden added. “He said he would get on it in the fall.”
Carney said in late June he would eliminate the tax — just before a hefty retroactive payment was due that would have cost big U.S. tech companies an estimated US$2 billion.