U.S. government officials are taking steps towards a potential legal challenge against Canada’s digital services tax on big tech companies which operate under the North American free trade deal. The digital services tax is a levy placed on tech companies that provide a digital service to Canadians, granted they earn at least $1.1 billion in annual global revenues and at least $20 million annually in Canada. These include tech companies Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram, as well as Google, Amazon, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Netflix, and Spotify.
https://tnc.news/2024/09/02/us-requests-dispute-consultants-over-liberals-digital-services-tax/

Uh-Oh -- as we predicted, it's coming ...

https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/message-from-airbnb-expect-governments

FILE: #RealEstateInvesting #HotelIndustry #Crackdown #AirBNB #Lawsuits
Shocking New “Airbnb Law” in DC (and How to Keep Rental Income Flowing)
Mar 18, 2022
https://www.washingtoncapitalpartners.com/real-estate-investing/shocking-new-airbnb-law-impacting-investors/

FILE: #Crackdown #AirBNB #Lawsuits
ALL ABOUT AIRBNB LAWSUITS
https://fairshake.com/airbnb/lawsuit/

The investigation reveals extraordinary details about how disinformation is being weaponised by Team Jorge, which runs a private service offering to covertly meddle in elections without a trace. The group also works for corporate clients. Hanan told the undercover reporters that his services, which others describe as “black ops”, were available to intelligence agencies, political campaigns and private companies that wanted to secretly manipulate public opinion. He said they had been used across Africa, South and Central America, the US and Europe. One of Team Jorge’s key services is a sophisticated software package, Advanced Impact Media Solutions, or Aims. It controls a vast army of thousands of fake social media profiles on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Telegram, Gmail, Instagram and YouTube. Some avatars even have Amazon accounts with credit cards, bitcoin wallets and Airbnb accounts. The consortium of journalists that investigated Team Jorge includes reporters from 30 outlets including Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País. The project, part of a wider investigation into the disinformation industry, has been coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a French nonprofit whose mission is to pursue the work of assassinated, threatened or jailed reporters. The undercover footage was filmed by three reporters, who approached Team Jorge posing as prospective clients.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-jorge-claim-meddling-elections-tal-hanan

Record Bankruptcy in US*

1. Victoria's Secret declared bankruptcy.
2. Zara closed 1,200 stores.
3. La Chapelle withdrew 4391 stores.
4. Chanel is discontinued.
5. Hermes is discontinued.
6. Patek Philippe discontinued production.
7. Rolex discontinued production.
8. The world's luxury industry has crumpled.
9. Nike has a total of $23 billion US dollars preparing for the second stage of layoffs.
10. Gold's gym filed for bankruptcy
11. The founder of AirBnb said that because of pandemic, 12 years of efforts were destroyed in 6 weeks.
12. Even Starbucks also announced to permanently close their 400 stores.
13. WeWork isn't in a great spot either

*Nissan Motor Co. may close down in USA.*

1. Biggest Car Rental company (Hertz) filed for bankruptcy - they also own Thrifty and Dollar
2. Biggest Trucking company (Comcar) filed for bankruptcy - they have 4000 trucks
3. Oldest retail company (JC Penny) filed for bankruptcy - to be acquired by Amazon for pennies
4. Biggest investor in the world (Warren Buffet) lost $50B in the last 2 months
5. Biggest investment company in the world (BlackRock) is signalling disaster in the world economy - they manage over $7 Trillion
6. Biggest mall in America (Mall of America) stopped paying mortgage payments
7. Most reputable airline in the world (Emirates) laying off 30% of its employees
8. US Treasury printing trillions to try to keep the economy on life support
9. Estimated no. of retail stores closing in 2020 - 12,000 to 15,000.

*The following are big retailers that have announced closing:*

- J. Crew
- Gap
- Victoria's Secret
- Bath & Body Works
- Forever 21
- Sears
- Walgreens
- GameStop
- Pier 1 Imports
- Nordstrom
- Papyrus
- Chico's
- Destination Maternity
- Modell's
- A.C. Moore
- Macy's
- Bose
- Art Van Furniture
- Olympia Sports
- K Mart
- Specialty Cafe & Bakery
and many many more

*Unemployment claims reached an all-time high of 38+ million - unemployment is over 25% (out of 160 million of work force, close to 40 million are jobless). With no income, consumer demand is falling drastically and the economy will go into a free fall. This is just USA...*