Tax Increases and Manitoba Finance Minister Jennifer Howard

Manitoba Finance Minister Jennifer Howard: 1. according to Winnipeg Free Press. 2. Manitoba Finance Minister Jennifer Howard answers media questions about the Provincial Budget at the Legislature in Winnipeg on Thursday. THE Five things to know The Selinger government imposed major tax increases in the first two budgets following its re-election in October 2011, including a one-point rise in the PST last year. But with an election expected in spring 2016 -- and possibly as early as October 2015 -- it was not going to impose an even greater level of tax pain on an increasingly cranky electorate. So this year's budget contains no tax increases -- not even a boost in tobacco levies and any fee increases will only be absorbed by a small handful of Manitobans who buy provincial maps or hunt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.