{"id":560219,"date":"2026-03-25T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560219\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:55:09","slug":"restaurant-group-says-manitoba-tax-cut-puts-them-at-a-disadvantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560219\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant group says\u00a0Manitoba\u00a0tax cut puts them at a disadvantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Manitoba\u00a0Restaurant and Foodservices Association says the new provincial budget contains a tax cut that puts restaurants at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>The budget will eliminate, as of July 1, the provincial sales tax on more foods in grocery stores, including snacks, soft drinks and prepared takeout meals.<\/p>\n<p>Basic groceries, such as milk, produce and meat, are already tax-exempt.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun Jeffrey, the association\u2019s executive director, says it\u2019s unfair that the tax is now being cut on takeout food from grocery stores but not on takeout food from restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>He says his members are hoping the government will include restaurants before the tax cut takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>The NDP government has said the tax cut will make life more affordable for busy families picking up prepared meals and snacks.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors\u00a0Manitoba\u00a0has expressed concern about less-expensive snack food, saying it would like to see healthy foods prioritized.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Manitoba\u00a0Restaurant and Foodservices Association says the new provincial budget contains a tax cut that puts restaurants at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-560219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560219","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=560219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}