{"id":555082,"date":"2026-03-23T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555082\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:20:14","slug":"n-b-feds-strike-deal-on-sales-tax-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555082\/","title":{"rendered":"N.B., feds strike deal on sales tax compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Holt government has reached a deal with Ottawa on compensation for tens of millions of dollars in lost sales tax revenue from the Christmas season in 2024.<\/p>\n

The Trudeau government\u2019s HST holiday meant it wasn\u2019t collecting the provincial portion of the tax on behalf of five provinces that are part of the tax model, including New Brunswick.<\/p>\n

In December 2024, Premier Susan Holt pegged the loss at $70 million and said her \u201cbottom line\u201d was that New Brunswickers had to \u201cremain whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

But federal cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc said the same day that there would be \u201cno direct compensation\u201d and that Ottawa was looking to come to \u201can understanding\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n

WATCH | \u2018That\u2019s going to go a long way\u2019:\"\"<\/p>\n

N.B., Ottawa strike sales tax compensation deal<\/p>\n

Federal government will give province $60 million for health records to make up for HST holiday<\/p>\n

The federal government was required, under the HST agreement, to pay up and the Holt Liberals could have opted to go to court to enforce it, but did not.<\/p>\n

Holt and LeBlanc confirmed at a joint news conference on Friday that Ottawa will provide $60 million toward bilingual digital health records in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe federal government made good on their word and we’re pleased to have gotten $60 million returned to the people of New Brunswick,\u201d Holt said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s going to go a long way towards the work that we’re doing to deliver New Brunswick the services they’re looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n

LeBlanc said it was important to support New Brunswick \u201cin this particular case \u2026 in terms of having to deliver quality health-care services in both official languages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the $60 million total, $20 million will be recorded on the books of the current 2025-26 fiscal year, which ends March 31.<\/p>\n

The other $40 million appears in budget estimates tabled in the legislature for the 2026-27 fiscal year that begins April 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-555082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555082","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=555082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}