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Why not a harmonized sales tax?

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Why not a harmonized sales tax?

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I’m not a member of the church of harmonization orthodoxy, at least as long as this jurisdiction has other tax modification priorities. Our corporate rate is too high; our small business thresholds are too high. We want to make progress on both of those. We have three tiers of [personal] income tax and we’ve said that a flatter system is important as we want to attract more entrepreneurial folks. We started with reforms in last year’s budget to reduce the property-tax share of education funding. This is a capital tax, and frankly a capital tax is far more insidious for an economy than the lack of harmonization. How do you respond to business leaders who say you are too timid in easing the weight of government, such as the province’s Crown corporations? We have a growth agenda for the province. We need to continue to get re-elected to continue to make these changes, maybe not as fast as people would like. But improving the economy’s competitiveness is a process, not an event. When we ca

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