{"id":521737,"date":"2026-03-08T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521737\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:28:11","slug":"province-moves-to-make-temporary-gas-tax-cut-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521737\/","title":{"rendered":"Province Moves to Make Temporary Gas Tax Cut Permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pc-finance-minister-craig-pardy-house-of-assembly-march-5-2026.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Province Moves to Make Temporary Gas Tax Cut Permanent\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finance Minister Craig Pardy (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe provincial government is vowing not to increase the provincial<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.nl.ca\/fin\/tax-programs-incentives\/business\/gasolinetax\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> taxation rate<\/a> on gas and diesel.<\/p>\n<p>The previous government cut the provincial component of taxes charged on gas and diesel in half, a break due to expire at the end of March.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Craig Pardy says he has no plans to increase the tax, and plans on making the reduced taxation rate permanent.<\/p>\n<p>He says while the previous government reduced the gas tax as an affordability measure there was no commitment that it would not increase again in March. Pardy says they\u2019re now working to ensure that the current rate remains permanent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Finance Minister Craig Pardy (VOCM News) The provincial government is vowing not to increase the provincial taxation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-521737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}