Ontario’s finance minister says the province will match Ottawa’s tax holiday by removing its provincial sales tax on products excluded from existing provincial rebates.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his government’s plan last week to implement a GST break on items like groceries, children’s clothing, restaurant meals, and alcohol in a bid to “put more money in people’s pockets” during the upcoming holiday season.
The two-month tax break, which is to run between Dec. 14 and Feb. 15, includes the provincial sales taxes in Ontario and Canada’s four Atlantic provinces as those provinces have harmonized their sales taxes (HST) with the federal government….