WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister promised Monday to remove the provincial sales tax from home and renters’ insurance if he is re-elected in the fall, saving the average household about $70 a year. It’s Pallister’s first election promise for a campaign that won’t officially begin for another month, and would undo a tax hike the former NDP government enacted in 2012. The former NDP government raised public anger when it raised the sales tax to eight per cent from seven per cent in 2013, one year after it expanded the sales tax to cover more items such as insurance, spa treatment and tattoos. Pallister’s Tories cut the sales tax rate back to seven per cent as of July 1, fulfilling their biggest promise from the 2016 campaign that saw them sweep the NDP from office. He was asked whether he would eliminate the tax from other types of insurance the NDP started taxing, such as group life insurance and travel cancellation.

Source: National Post July 08, 2019 19:28 UTC