BC Liberals Want PST Gone for a Year!
Channel: Lee Harding
Date: 2020-09-29

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The British Columbia Liberals pledged to eliminate the 7 percent Provincial Sales Tax for one year and place it at 3 percent the year following, a move that threatens to NDP Leader John Horgan’s bid to be re-elected as premier.

Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson made the announcement on Monday. The move will leave $6.8 billion more in taxpayers’ pockets in the first year and $3.9 billion in the second year. A family of four with each parent earning $60,000 would save $1,714 and $979 in the respective years.

“Every government in the Western world is anticipating deficit spending for the next few years,” Wilkinson said at a press conference. “That’s the fact of the matter to pay for health and education, to maintain the services we want, to build all the projects that are already underway.”

Kris Sims, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation spokesperson for B.C. said the announcement was “absolutely wonderful” and also “a bit of a tone change” for the Liberals.

“This is a really bold move . . . This now puts the ball in John Horgan’s court. John Horgan grew up a working person. He drove trucks, he worked in pulp mills, a lot of his original support comes from working class people.”