{"id":947158,"date":"2026-10-26T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947158\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:30:10","slug":"cuts-coming-to-gas-and-diesel-for-winter-months-says-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947158\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuts Coming to Gas and Diesel for Winter Months, says Finance Minister"},"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\/10\/finance-minister-craig-pardy-vocm-news.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Cuts Coming to Gas and Diesel for Winter Months, says Finance Minister\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finance Minister Craig Pardy (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Government is cutting the provincial HST equivalent on gas and diesel through the winter months in a temporary affordability measure announced this morning \u2013 but whether the break will be extended remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>The tax cut \u2013 equating to 8 cents a litre \u2013 will take effect on December 1st and run until March 31st.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minsiter Craig Pardy is promising future legislation that would automatically drop the tax once the price of oil hits a certain threshold, though he stopped short of providing specific details.<\/p>\n<p>Pardy notes that if the price of oil remains high come April 1st, government will extend the tax break, otherwise the tax will return on fuel bills in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>He says many may ask why not eliminate it altogether?<\/p>\n<p>He says tax revenue funds thing like health care and education. \u201cForty-two per cent of our expenditures in government go towards health. Sixteen per cent go toward education. It\u2019s what taxes do for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Finance Minister Craig Pardy (VOCM News) Government is cutting the provincial HST equivalent on gas and diesel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-947158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947158","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=947158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}