Provincial Sales Tax: Tobacco Tax

Provincial Budget Dept: Manitobans will see the provincial sales tax rise to eight per cent on July 1 as the Selinger government continues to wrestle with a half-billion spending deficit, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The tobacco tax will go up by four cents a cigarette to 29 cents effective midnight tonight and Manitoba Finance Minister Stan Struthers meets with the media at the legislature after releasing the budget Tuesday. BORIS MINKEVICH / Related Items Articles Budget highlights VIDEO: Budget press conference & five things you should know Your Turn: Share your thoughts on the PST hike Infrastructure spending up $80M -- 40% of PST hike: budget More police, more prosecutors in Budget 2013: province The Great Manitoba Budget Quiz Polls What's your reaction to Tuesday's provincial budget? Links Complete coverage of the 2013 provincial budget The one percentage point sales-tax hike is the main pocketbook hit for Manitobans in a cautious budget handed down today that also makes it more expensive to buy tobacco and purchase a fishing licence and signals another rise in the minimum wage. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.