CHARLOTTETOWN – The Prince Edward Island Tories have launched an advertising campaign saying the new harmonized sales tax will raise some prices on the Island.
The ads in newspapers and on radio referred to the first day of the HST in P.E.I. as “Black Monday.”
Three black box ads are appearing in the Charlottetown Guardian, calling the HST a “$30 million tax grab.”
One of the ads says funerals will cost $900 more, another that minor sports will be $50 higher per child and the third says Island households will now be pay $20 more monthly on their light bills.
Premier Robert Ghiz has defended the HST, pointing to economists and the business community that praise it as a way of growing the private sector.
He and Finance Minister Wes Sheridan have repeatedly predicted businesses will lower their costs to consumers, as they will now be getting new tax credits.
Interim Tory Leader Steven Myers said the party advertising is meant to balance the Liberal government’s message that Islanders will benefit from the harmonized tax.
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