CCIA Statement on Canada Moving Forward on Digital Services Tax

Digital Economy, News & Events, Taxes & Trade

Washington — Canada announced this week that it will take steps to implement a digital services tax, as announced by Department of Finance Canada. The Canada tax closely mirrors other unilateral measures pursued by European countries in recent years, which have been subject to trade investigations that found the taxes discriminatory against U.S. tech companies…

CCIA Encourages Trilogue Negotiations to Focus on Making the Digital Markets Act Workable

Competition, Digital Economy, EU, Internet Freedom, Jobs & Innovation, News & Events

Brussels, BELGIUM — Today the European Parliament adopted its negotiating position on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), largely adopting the amendments approved by the committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, which is leading in the proposal. With the Council of Ministers of the European Union having recently agreed on their ‘general approach’, this milestone…