Manitoba Budget: Manitoba Liquor Control Commission

Manitoba Budget Links Manitoba Finance Dept: Your pocketbook Related Items Articles Mayor says provincial budget a bad deal for Winnipeg Dan Lett: 5 Things you need to know about the budget Cigarette, gas taxes up in Manitoba budget Links Manitoba Finance: Tax Savings Estimator Manitoba Finance: Full budget papers Tobacco taxes are going up. The tax per cigarette as of midnight tonight will rise 2.5 cents to a total 25 cents. Effective May 1, the tax on gasoline and diesel fuel will go up by 2.5 cents a litre to a total of 14 cents. On the same day, there will be a new three cent a litre tax on marked gasoline farm fuel . It will cost an extra $35 to register a vehicle. The government will charge the PST on the following services as of July 1: spa treatments, pedicures, manicures and facials, haircuts, and hairstyling, tattooing and piercings. Haircuts costing less than $50 will be exempt. Also subject to the PST will be purchases of property and group life insurance, trip cancellation insurance, baggage insurance and land titles insurance. Fees for birth, marriage and death certificates will each rise by $5 as of Sept. 30, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The province s finances Highlights of the 2012 Manitoba budget: Belt-tightening Government department spending will go down 3.9 per cent from last year. However last year s spending was greatly affected by hundreds of millions in unanticipated flood costs Ten government departments and agencies will see a freeze or reduction in their budgets. The Manitoba Liquor Control Commission to merge with the Manitoba Lotteries Corp. to save on administrative costs. Government will reduce the number of government-appointed agencies, boards and commissions by 20 per cent. Government to save $10 million in the next three years by reducing the number of regional health authorities to five from 11. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.