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I can see no mention in article of Airbnb asking for a bailout in Canada and in turn Canada slapping a tax.
by acd10j 6y ago
I can see no mention in article of Airbnb asking for a bailout in Canada and in turn Canada slapping a tax.
- mattmanser 6y agoPenultimate paragraph. Likely an editor sensationalized the title, as you're right, it's not the focus of the article.
- mgbmtl 6y agoAirBNB asked for a bailout back in March 2020. The blog post makes it sound like there was a cause and effect, but this is just the government normalizing things across the country. Here are more official sources on the news: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/economic-update-child-care-netflix-tax-1.5822327 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/economic-update-child-care-... https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/11/30/ottawa-to-impose-fair-share-of-tax-on-digital-giants-including-netflix-amazon-and-airbnb.html https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/11/30/ottawa-to-impose...
- Sanzig 6y agoI think (well, I hope) that Airbnb understood that request would go nowhere. Airbnb is politically radioactive in Canada, any government percieved as "bailing out" Airbnb would likely suffer consequences at the ballot box. I suspect Airbnb instead made the request to placate underwater hosts during the start of the COVID tourism crash - they had to be seen as doing something. Still an incredibly scuzzy and tone-deaf ask, but put in context, I sort of get why they did it.