Bloc Québécois Wants to Revive the Netflix Tax Ottawa Scrapped in June
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anything that pushes the american media influence out is good with me; bonus points if you also prioritise indigenous and first nation content at the same time. if anything cancon limits should be dramatically increased.
We could join the EU's version of a digital services tax. Make it harder for them to single us out. However, like all things EU, it's taking a long time to implement.
I'm for it.
The politics here is that a lot of the Netflix content is filmed in Canada.
Push on this tax and Netflix can move filming elsewhere. This is $10B in economic activity.
Netflix films in Canada because of Tax credits, it is less expensive for them to film stuff here than it is in the US. Plus do you think the Canadians still paying for Netflix here are going to stop because it goes up 14% a year or what ever the tax was going to be?
Hahaha netflix has raised price by 20 like what, 3X in the last 3 years. I think the price has close to doubled.
That's after they already effectively doubled the costs for a lot of people by removing account sharing.
But if ther is a 10% tax, then people would be unable to pay and be forced to cancel.
Lololol