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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Fair enough. There’s a push and pull in negotiations that we (generally) don’t see. I’m trying to read the tea leaves to figure out why Carney would ditch the DST, and this is a possible reason. I can’t know if it’s the reason. But it’s interesting to think about.

    We aren’t unique in having a tax like this,

    I think we’re unique in that we made our tax retroactive.

    and the US has no place saying it’s unfair when it’s not even only foreign companies paying.

    Generally, I agree that the US has no place dictating our tax policy, but they are within their rights to control their trade with us. 90% of the companies paying are US tech companies (I think that’s in the Globe explainer), so I can see why poking us to see what they can get. I don’t like it, but that’s (sadly) irrelevant.