Taxpayers’ Federation Demands Tax Relief Commitments from Parties

The Canadian Taypayers’ Federation is urging the province’s three political leaders to commit to what it calls meaningful tax relief.

Atlantic director Devin Drover says family budgets are being squeezed and this provincial election campaign needs to be about making life more affordable.

The federation is calling for five policy commitments from the three parties including making the temporary gas-tax cut permanent, cutting personal income taxes, reducing the sales tax by one per cent, lowering business taxes and raising the small-business threshold, and implementing spending reduction measures included in the Greene Report.