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QUEBEC — The Quebec government is making good on its promise to level the playing field for subscription video services, and will require Netflix and similar services to start collecting and paying Quebec sales tax as of next year.

The measure, announced in Tuesday’s budget plan, requires companies in the rest of Canada (as of Sept. 1, 2019) and foreign countries (as of Jan. 1, 2019) that sell digital services to Quebecers to register with the government and pay QST once they pass $30,000 a year in revenue from Quebecers.

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The government hopes to raise $154.5 million in additional sales tax revenue over the next five years, well below the estimated $226.8 million a year in taxes from foreign suppliers that went uncollected in 2017, according to a Revenue Quebec estimate.

“We’re starting in a prudent way,” explained Finance Minister Carlos Leitão. “I don’t think it would be prudent to say we’re going to be capable of getting X millions of dollars.”