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Tax, content requirements for foreign OTT not included in Heritage review

Briefs | 06/14/2016 10:08 pm EDT

When Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly said “there will be no Netflix tax,” at the end of her department’s review of cultural institutions, that leaves both the taxation of foreign streaming services and the requirement for those services to pay into Canadian content creation off the table.

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