Two premiers are asking Ottawa to cover the provincial cost of the Trudeau government's promised tax holiday.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would seek to lift the GST and HST from some goods until mid-February in a bid to alleviate some of the affordability pressures people have been experiencing in the post-pandemic era.
But in the five provinces that have a harmonized sales tax — a combination of provincial and federal taxes on goods and services administered by the federal government — the entire tax, including the provincial portion, will be removed.
