Beck kicks off campaign with No Tax Hike Guarantee
For immediate release: August 29, 2024
Beck kicks off campaign with No Tax Hike Guarantee
Gas tax relief, freezing small business tax
SASKATOON - Today, Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck kicked off her election campaign with a guarantee she will not raise taxes if her party forms government.
“People are struggling, even those who haven’t struggled in the past. We’ve got to lower costs and that’s exactly what we’ll do,” Beck said. “We want to give folks a guarantee that unlike Scott Moe and the Sask. Party, we won’t raise your taxes – in fact we’ll lower them,” said Beck, who has already announced she would suspend the provincial gas tax.
“We’ll have more to say on how we’ll cut costs for families in the coming weeks.”
Beck’s No Tax Hike Guarantee will ensure that families, job creators and investors will have certainty that the province will be more affordable and more stable under a Saskatchewan NDP government.
The Guarantee applies to all forms of provincial taxation. That means no increases to income taxes, small business taxes, provincial sales tax, and corporate taxes.
Beck said that her government would pay for its spending commitments by growing the economy, finding efficiencies, and cutting Sask. Party waste and mismanagement.
Beck singled out Scott Moe’s million-dollar trip to Dubai as textbook wasteful spending.
By contrast, Scott Moe has already announced that he will double the small business tax on July 1, 2025.
The Sask. Party has already hiked the provincial sales tax from 5% to 6% and expanded it to essentials like groceries and children’s clothes in the largest tax increase in Saskatchewan’s history.
