Digital services fee no longer charged in Canada, effective August 15
The Canadian government recently announced its intention to repeal the Digital Services Tax Act (the DSTA). As a result, we’ll no longer charge digital services fees related to the Canadian digital services tax, effective August 15. This change impacts businesses that are established in Canada or sell products in the Amazon.ca store.
Digital service fees that have already been collected related to the Canadian digital services tax will be refunded when the DSTA is officially repealed. We’ll notify you via email with more details when we process these refunds. Until then, you can continue to track digital service fees via the Transaction View in your Payments report.
On August 15, we’ll update our rate card to remove the digital service fee rates in Canada. A digital service fee will still apply if you are established in Canada and sell in the UK, France, Italy or Spain, or if you are established in the UK, France, Italy or Spain and sell in Canada.
To review digital service fee rates by country, go to Digital services fee.
Digital services fee no longer charged in Canada, effective August 15
The Canadian government recently announced its intention to repeal the Digital Services Tax Act (the DSTA). As a result, we’ll no longer charge digital services fees related to the Canadian digital services tax, effective August 15. This change impacts businesses that are established in Canada or sell products in the Amazon.ca store.
Digital service fees that have already been collected related to the Canadian digital services tax will be refunded when the DSTA is officially repealed. We’ll notify you via email with more details when we process these refunds. Until then, you can continue to track digital service fees via the Transaction View in your Payments report.
On August 15, we’ll update our rate card to remove the digital service fee rates in Canada. A digital service fee will still apply if you are established in Canada and sell in the UK, France, Italy or Spain, or if you are established in the UK, France, Italy or Spain and sell in Canada.
To review digital service fee rates by country, go to Digital services fee.
13 replies
Seller_DGT1u9nkD6wcL
Thanks, and this is what Amazon should do instead of thinking about the star-only feedback system
Seller_HUz0rPJhg4WFL
Do we have a date as to when we will see the reversal of fees in our accounts?
Seller_R9WesGvPFxipV
We still see DST charged in settlement and also when will the refund issued for all DST??
Dougal_Amazon
Hello @Seller_HUz0rPJhg4WFLand @Seller_R9WesGvPFxipV,
My name is Dougal from the Community Manager Team and Digital service fees that have already been collected related to the Canadian digital services tax will be refunded when the DSTA is officially repealed.
As of today, doing my own research outside of Amazon, I see that Canada's Digital Services Tax Act (DSTA) has not yet been officially repealed through legislation.
Best, Dougal
Seller_BCsJXNkuO7q9e
Budget 2025 has now received Royal Assent. That means the DST is officially dead.
As per CRA communication they will be refunding all DST already paid with interest.
Amazon should hopefully move quickly to refund all DST collected between Oct 1, 2024 and August 15, 2025. It would be appropriate for Amazon to fully pass on any interest received from CRA to impacted sellers.
Seller_LBNcwL9dKwXun
I think we all know how this is going to go... sigh, lol. But I am glad to see this has finally been resolved in the senate.
