Significant fuel tax jump coming to New Brunswick, but not its neighbours | CBC News
A decades-long effort by New Brunswick governments to keep
gasoline prices in line with neighbouring provinces and within sight of
prices in Maine will begin to fall apart next week — possibly for good —
when significant carbon tax increases, mandated by Ottawa, hit the
region in very different ways.
gasoline prices in line with neighbouring provinces and within sight of
prices in Maine will begin to fall apart next week — possibly for good —
when significant carbon tax increases, mandated by Ottawa, hit the
region in very different ways.
On Monday, gasoline taxes in New
Brunswick are set to jump 4.42 cents per litre, plus HST, compared to
just 0.94 cents in Nova Scotia and no increase in Quebec and Maine.
It’s an unprecedented shift in relative pricing among jurisdictions in
the region and it’s to New Brunswick’s distinct disadvantage.