{"id":904772,"date":"2026-09-22T01:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T01:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904772\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T01:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T01:40:13","slug":"carney-says-he-wont-backtrack-on-digital-services-tax-streamers-cancon-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904772\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney says he won&#8217;t backtrack on digital services tax, streamers&#8217; CanCon payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carney: I won&#8217;t backtrack<\/p>\n<p>Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press &#8211; Sep 21, 2026 \/ 1:21 pm | Story: 631947<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Prime Minister Mark Carney rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/e71230ba857a9b214811a758acc3485aeebfcba54fe5da5cbd3cb6db1ff4136f.jpg\" style=\"height:425px; width:640px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney says he won\u2019t change his mind about his decision to eliminate the digital services tax and Canadian content contributions for streamers.<\/p>\n<p>Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Leader Yves-Fran\u00e7ois Blanchet asked Carney in the House of Commons today whether he&#8217;ll reconsider those decisions after they failed to secure progress in trade talks with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The digital services tax would have imposed a three-per-cent levy on revenue from Canadian users on the biggest tech companies, including Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the first payment was due last year, Carney said he would eliminate the tax in order to restart trade talks with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the government said it would also eliminate the financial contribution requirement for streamers set by the CRTC under the Online Streaming Act.<\/p>\n<p>The United States still took issue with the Online Streaming Act in the most recent trade talks, a position Carney cited as one of the reasons his government ended negotiations in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carney: I won&#8217;t backtrack Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press &#8211; Sep 21, 2026 \/ 1:21 pm | Story:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-904772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}