The Manitoba government is looking at Jan. 1 for the start of a fuel-tax holiday to help motorists with inflation.
The NDP promised during the recent election campaign to suspend the province’s 14-cent-a-litre fuel tax until inflation subsides.
Finance Minister Adrien Sala says a bill will be put before the legislature to start the tax holiday on New Year’s Day, and the tax break will run for at least six months.
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Sala says the tax break could be extended based on economic conditions, but exactly what would trigger the extension has not been worked out.
The gas-tax holiday is one of several measures outlined for Sala in a mandate letter from Premier Wab Kinew.
Sala is also tasked with maintaining a 50-per cent reduction in education property taxes enacted by the former Progressive Conservative government, but he is not promising to phase out the tax completely as the Tories had pledged.
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