Liberals Ram Through Ontarios Largest Sales Tax Increase
NEWS:
QUEEN’S PARK – Today at Queen’s Park, the McGuinty Liberals rammed through the largest sales tax increase in Ontario with no public input from outside Toronto. Choosing to listen to elite economists and Liberal insiders, the McGuinty Government has ignored the voices of Ontario’s families, seniors and small businesses who oppose this $3 billion tax grab and rammed through the Bill by using legislative loopholes.
Over the last few weeks, Tim Hudak and the Ontario PC Caucus stood up for taxpayers by bringing to light how far the McGuinty Liberals were prepared to go in order to hide their record-breaking tax grab from the public.
On July 1st, 2010 Dalton McGuinty’s HST will impose a new 8% tax on many of the goods and services Ontario families rely on every day including gasoline, hydro bills, haircuts and home heating bills. A recent Angus Reid public opinion poll found 75% of all Ontarians oppose Dalton McGuinty’s plan to impose this new tax.
QUOTES:
“The McGuinty Liberals have used every trick at their disposal to ram this tax grab through without a single hour of public hearings outside of Queen’s Park. The PC Caucus will continue to fight for the families and seniors this government is intent on ignoring.”
- Ontario PC Leader, Tim Hudak
“Dalton McGuinty is quick to make promises and even quicker to break them. Families throughout Ontario are today paying thousands of dollars more in taxes because Dalton McGuinty cannot be trusted to keep his word.”
- Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak
“I, Dalton McGuinty, leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, promise, if my party is elected as the next government, that I will: Not raise taxes or implement any new taxes without the explicit consent of Ontario voters; And not run deficits. I will abide by the Taxpayer Protection Act.”
- Dalton McGuinty’s “Taxpayer Protection Pledge”, September 11, 2003 (Liberal News Release)
QUICK FACTS:
- The McGuinty Government’s HST deal contains a $4.3 billion poison pill designed to handcuff future governments. The clause forces any government that would want to repeal the tax before 2015, to pay a $4.3 billion fine.
- The HST is the merger of the PST and GST into one tax, which means the 8 % PST will be applied to a whole new range of goods and services previously not subject to PST.
- The HST will devastate those on fixed incomes who will be forced to pay 8% more for nondiscretionary items like hydro, home heating fuel, natural gas, haircuts, gasoline, home renovation & repairs, funerals, lawn maintenance, and snow removal.
- The HST will be a tax on retirement savings and related services – including higher prices for mutual fund fees.
