In a ruling Thursday, a federal justice denied the Canada Revenue Agency’s request to make Shopify share six years worth of information about its clients’ sales, finding that the tax authority hadn’t clearly identified the group of individuals for which it wanted details. (The Logic)
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In a ruling Thursday, a federal justice denied the Canada Revenue Agency’s request to make Shopify share six years worth of information about its clients’ sales, finding that the tax authority hadn’t clearly identified the group of individuals for which it wanted details. (The Logic)
Talking point: The CRA has been seeking the data—17 details including the clients’ web addresses and the number and volume of transactions they’d done—since late 2022. It planned to use the information to check whether merchants were properly reporting sales and remitting tax on them. But the agency needed a court order to get Shopify to hand it over. The commerce company contested the request, arguing the government hadn’t proved it needed to audit most of the businesses about which it wanted information. In an X post on Sunday, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke called the CRA’s move “blatant overreach.” The agency has won similar cases against other tech platforms.
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