{"id":603657,"date":"2026-04-14T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:34:09","slug":"ottawa-temporarily-suspending-federal-fuel-excise-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603657\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Temporarily Suspending Federal Fuel Excise Tax"},"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\/04\/pm-prime-minister-mark-carney-april-14-2026.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Ottawa Temporarily Suspending Federal Fuel Excise Tax\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Mark Carney (CPAC)<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is temporarily suspending the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/services\/forms-publications\/publications\/currate\/current-rates-excise-taxes.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fuel excise tax<\/a> to help Canadians with the rising cost of gas and diesel. <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney says the break will be in effect from next week until Labour Day. <\/p>\n<p>That will mean a reduction of 10 cents a litre on gasoline, and 4 cents a litre on diesel fuel. He says Ottawa is removing the fuel excise tax on aviation fuels. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/natural-resources.canada.ca\/domestic-international-markets\/fuel-consumption-levies-canada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The provinces also charge taxes on fuel<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Furnace oil is exempt from the tax which was introduced in 1995, and there is no federal excise tax on natural gas or propane. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Prime Minister Mark Carney (CPAC) The federal government is temporarily suspending the fuel excise tax to help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":{"0":"post-603657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-ottawa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603657","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=603657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}