Sentences with phrase «msp premiums»

MSP — Since Christy Clark became premier, MSP premiums have gone up every single year, costing the average family $ 348 more.

Additionally, the B.C. Liberals are leaving schools short on funding after hitting them with hikes to MSP premiums, hydro rates and more operational expenses.

In addition, there are material expenditures missing from the operating budgets going forward, such as the Golden Ears bridge toll fees removal in year two and beyond, the one - third replacement cost of the Pattullo bridge (which was to be funded by tolls) and the second 50 % of the promised 100 % MSP premiums reduction.

«Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals doubled MSP premiums and six weeks before the election campaign, they want people to forget their record,» said Horgan.

On Jan. 1, MSP premiums rose for the fifth year in a row, while tolls on the Port Mann Bridge doubled.

Darcy noted that while the Liberals showed little interest in pressing Ottawa for more funding, they were not so reluctant to increase MSP premiums again this year.

- From progressive income taxes to regressive consumption taxes, MSP premiums, and user fees for public programs and services.

In fact, noting that 50 % of the MSP premiums have already been eliminated (with the impact being absorbed in «general revenues»), the new payroll tax collected will more than make up the remaining MSP revenue shortfall, and is a material contributor to achieving the balanced budgets that are forecast.

This move will also benefit small and medium - sized businesses that currently pay MSP premiums as a benefit for their employees.

«We certainly applaud government's efforts on easing the burden of high housing costs and increasing access to child care, but in introducing a payroll tax to offset lost MSP premium revenues this Budget delivers another meaningful blow to small to medium employers, especially in the service and technology sectors,» adds Black.

Troublingly, the government's own task force warned against replacing the MSP premium with a payroll tax.

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Not exact matches

VICTORIA — More than 500,000 B.C. families will see one of the largest ever medical services premium (MSP) tax hikes on January 1, thanks to Christy Clark's MSP shell game, says B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

«If Christy Clark wanted lower taxes for ordinary people she wouldn't have doubled the MSP, and jacked up hydro rates and ICBC premiums.»