E-commerce giant Shopify plans to fight a Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) demand for six years of records from more than 121,000 Canadian merchants that work with the platform to build online stores.
“I don’t particularly want a fight with the CRA (Canada’s tax authority)- but we got asked to backchannel them 6 years of records for all Canadian Shopify stores,” said Tobi Lutkey, Shopify’s chief executive officer, in a tweet on June 23.
“This feels like low-key overreach to me. We will fight this,” he wrote.
In May, Shopify Inc. announced that it would cut its staff by 20 percent and sell the logistics component of its business to a supply chain management company, to focus more on its e-commerce objectives….