provincial sales tax

11:21AM
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British Columbia should replace PST with an HST

The tax leads to higher operating costs that hurt the competitiveness of businesses in the province.


2:52PM
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If the B.C. government truly wants to make the provincial tax system more competitive, reform is needed across three key taxes.


9:00AM
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Over the next two months, residents of Metro Vancouver will vote “Yes” or No” in a transit tax plebiscite, but the proposed tax hike to finance what are mostly public transit projects is at best questionable from a transportation economics perspective.

3:00AM
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April 1st is an important day for British Columbians and we're not referring to the Easter long weekend. On that day BC officially scraps the HST and in one fell swoop restores the old Provincial Sales Tax system.

But moving back to the PST will cause harm to the provincial economy and BC families will lose out on the increased prosperity and jobs that the HST would have encouraged. Since our province will be poorer with the PST, it falls on our political leaders to take action to lessen the impact.