Tech Companies Urge Probe That Canada DST Violates Trade Deals

US technology firms are asking the Trump administration to investigate Canada’s imposition of a digital services tax as a trade violation.

The Computer & Communications Industry Association requested Friday that the Office of the US Trade Representative begin a Section 301 investigation over the tax, which firms operating in Canada—many of them large US tech companies—must begin paying on June 30.

“The absence of a US position on this means that we will incentivize other countries around the world, which also would like to engage in a smash and grab against US exporters, to do the same thing,” Matthew ...