Quebec's "Netflix tax" has netted $128 million so far

QUEBEC CITY – While the federal government still has not acted to implement a regime where digital operators, including the FAANGs of this world (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google), collect federal sales tax, the Quebec Government reports it has now, through the 559 operators of registrant suppliers from outside Québec, collected a total of $128 million since the implementation of the new regime in January 2019. That sum should be higher because the deadline for paying the government has been extended, because of Covid-19, to June 30. A year ago, in May 2019, after a quarter the sum was $15...