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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has said that delaying the implementation of the digital services tax by another year would run counter to Canada's national interests.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

October 25, 2023

A recent report boosting the estimated windfall Canada could rake in from a proposed tax on digital services, despite protests from international allies, could lead the feds to counting its chickens before they’ve hatched, says law expert Michael Geist.

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