Posts Tagged ‘HST’

Mantha’s News from the Park

Mantha’s News from the Park

It’s time to brush the dust from my shoes gathered at all of the festivals, pow wows events, celebrations and meetings that I attended over the summer and head back to the Legislature. After all the conversations and meetings I had with many constituents this summer, clearly there is a lot of [Read more]

Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth

Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth

Ontario’s Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth has helped to make Ontario one of the most attractive places in the industrialized world to invest. Ontario follows only California and New York as the world’s favourite destination for foreign direct investment in North America.   Benefits [Read more]

Helping Ontario’s Small Businesses Grow

Helping Ontario’s Small Businesses Grow

October 26, 2010 McGuinty Government Supports Small Businesses With Transition Payments Starting this week, the province is helping 800,000 Ontario businesses with support of transition payments of $300 up to $1000 as they adapt to the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). By harmonizing its two sales taxes, [Read more]

High Heating a Hot Topic for Hughes

High Heating a Hot Topic for Hughes

HST MAKES FUEL PRICES EVEN HIGHER FOR NORTHERN ONTARIO OTTAWA, ON – On the first day of Autumn, with furnaces set to roar into action across Northern Ontario, Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP Caro Hughes is asking why the Conservative government made the cost of heating fuel even more expensive. [Read more]

Point-of-Sale Exemption fo Status Indians

Point-of-Sale Exemption fo Status Indians

Submitted by  Marathon & District Chamber of Commerce, published Courtesy of OntarioNewsNorth.com Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) Point-of-Sale Exemption for Status Indians Effective September 1, 2010, First Nations status card holders are exempt from the provincial part of the Harmonized Sales Tax [Read more]

Tax Changes Give Ontario Businesses Opportunities to Grow

Tax Changes Give Ontario Businesses Opportunities to Grow

July 2, 2010 10:30 AM Toronto Business Has Plans To Pass On Savings With Lower Prices Ontario businesses opened their doors to a new era of growth and prosperity. By modernizing an out of date, 50-year old tax system, Ontario is providing tax cuts to families and businesses and implementing the [Read more]

HST Boosts Economy

HST Boosts Economy

Creating Jobs For Ontario Families McGuinty Government’s Open Ontario Plan Helps Families Get Ahead The Harmonized Sales Tax is now in effect – and that means a stronger economy with more competitive businesses that create more jobs for hard-working Ontario families. In more than 140 [Read more]

HST Begins With a Bang on Canada Day

HST Begins With a Bang on Canada Day

Fireworks celebrations on July 1st do not escape Harmonized Sales Tax THUNDER BAY – Canada Day celebrations this year will have a little less bang for the buck as the Harper-McGuinty HST will make it more expensive to buy even fireworks.  It’s a fitting start to how this unfair tax shift will [Read more]

Gravelle and Mauro agree, HST = Prosperity

Gravelle and Mauro agree, HST = Prosperity

Ontario’s Tax Plan A Big Boost for Small Business The Harmonized Sales Tax will return approximately 5 billion dollars to Ontario businesses and will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs. On July 1st, the province of Ontario’s 50 year old tax system will get a major overhaul. Ontario is [Read more]

Blockade dismantled, for now…

Blockade dismantled, for now…

“Batchewana First Nation Dismantles Railway Blockade, For Now” At 8:00am this morning Batchewana First Nation community members began to dismantle the railway blockade, which was erected yesterday in opposition to the HST. The dismantle came after a collective agreement amongst organizers, and [Read more]

Ontario’s Tax Plan Will Help Manufacturers Build Economic Growth

Ontario’s Tax Plan Will Help Manufacturers Build Economic Growth

June 21, 2010 10:00 AM McGuinty Government Providing Tax Relief to Bolster the Manufacturing Sector Ontario’s manufacturers are expected to receive over $1 billion in tax relief annually as a result of the Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth. Beginning July 1, manufacturers will be eligible for [Read more]

First Nations’ Point of Sale Exemption continues

First Nations’ Point of Sale Exemption continues

Continuing Point of Sale Exemption for Ontario’s First Nations Ontario will continue to provide a provincial exemption for First Nations under the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). This exemption has been in place in Ontario for 30 years under the Retail Sales Tax (RST). Effective [Read more]

Ontario’s Tax Plan Creates Jobs and Strengthens Economy

Ontario’s Tax Plan Creates Jobs and Strengthens Economy

June 10, 2010 3:00 PM McGuinty Government Helps Families and Individuals Transition to New System Ontario families will not see a change in tax on 83 per cent of purchases when the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) comes into effect July 1. For example basic groceries, municipal transit and prescription [Read more]

Gov’t mistreating First Nations re:HST?

Gov’t mistreating First Nations re:HST?

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S TREATMENT OF FIRST NATIONS ON HST SHAMEFUL Ottawa – If the government wants to avoid legal challenges and a summer of protest from First Nations they should start treating them with respect on the HST, according to Carol Hughes. “The government’s  handling of HST has [Read more]

Study says tax system will benefit Ontarians

Study says tax system will benefit Ontarians

McGuinty Government Tax Changes Deliver Jobs, Economic Growth A new, comprehensive study — using Statistics Canada’s Social Policy Simulation Database and Model and reviewed by some of Canada’s leading economists — shows that the province’s tax system will be more progressive [Read more]

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