Shopify CEO Vows to Fight CRA Demand for Six Years of Canadian Merchant Records

Shopify CEO Vows to Fight CRA Demand for Six Years of Canadian Merchant Records
Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke participates in the company's annual general meeting of shareholders in Ottawa on May 29, 2019. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang
Marnie Cathcart
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E-commerce giant Shopify plans to fight a Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) demand for six years of records from more than 121,000 Canadian merchants that work with the platform to build online stores.

“I don’t particularly want a fight with the CRA (Canada’s tax authority)- but we got asked to backchannel them 6 years of records for all Canadian Shopify stores,” said Tobi Lutkey, Shopify’s chief executive officer, in a tweet on June 23.