{"id":603755,"date":"2026-04-14T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603755\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:34:09","slug":"ottawa-temporarily-suspending-federal-fuel-tax-on-gas-and-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603755\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa temporarily suspending federal fuel tax on gas and diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t    \t\t\t<img width=\"1643\" height=\"916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gas.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail_1920 size-thumbnail_1920 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta-info\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/category\/business\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/category\/politics\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ntv.ca\/2026\/04\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tApril 14th, 2026<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The federal government temporarily suspending the federal fuel excise tax on gas and diesel starting next week.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney made the announcement in Ottawa on Tuesday, just hours after his government secured a majority in the House of Commons with three byelection victories.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension will come into effect on April 20 and last until Sept. 7, and it comes as global oil prices remain volatile amid U.S-Iran tensions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the federal government, the tax suspension is expected to reduce the cost of gas by 10 cents per litre on regular gas, and four cents on diesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business, News, Politics April 14th, 2026 The federal government temporarily suspending the federal fuel excise tax on gas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,6662,228304,20739],"class_list":{"0":"post-603755","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-gas-prices","11":"tag-gas-tax","12":"tag-ottawa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603755","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=603755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}