Business Groups Push for Pause on Canada’s Digital Services Tax Targeting Tech Giants

A woman walks by a giant screen with a logo at an event at the Paris Google Lab on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris on Feb. 9, 2025. Thibault Camus/AP Photo

Ottawa is under pressure to pause digital services tax legislation that directs large tech companies to make a big retroactive payment by June 30.

Canadian and U.S. business groups, organizations representing U.S. tech giants and American members of Congress have all signed letters calling for the tax to be eliminated or paused.