The Canadian Taxpayers Federation fears there could be new taxes in the future for Saskatchewan residents. Prairie Director Todd Mackay says Regina may ask the Province for the right to expand into areas like gas, income and sales taxes. MacKay claims a City of Regina document states a sales tax alone could bring in about $35-million a year and there will be further analysis. The Federation says other levies the Queen City is exploring include hotel occupancy and vehicle registration. Saskatoon has no plans to add new taxes, but MacKay says the city won’t rule it out pending an audit of its current tax sources.
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The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.
The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.
T-D and B-MO have adopted the government’s requested “CdaCarbonRebate” entry, R-B-C and Scotiabank say they couldn’t make the change in time for the rollout, and C-I-B-C is still calling it “Deposit Canada.”