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蓝领，你是哪里来的消息？是不是你最近夜观天像，掐指算出来的。
汽油税快来了
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蓝领，你是哪里来的消息？是不是你最近夜观天像，掐指算出来的。
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TORONTO - Ontario drivers should be pumped for more cash to pay for transit infrastructure, a panel advising Premier Kathleen Wynne has recommended.
Making the Move: Choices and Consequences, released Thursday by the Anne Golden Transit Panel, has laid out two options to pay for new transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area (GTHA) and transportation infrastructure throughout the province.
The two options would see gasoline taxes rise by three cents per litre starting in 2015-16 followed by one-cent annual increases.
Wynne said her government must now make a decision about which revenue tools to pursue but is committed to finding the funding necessary for large expansion of the public transit system.
“I believe that the progressive position on infrastructure investment is being very upfront and honest with people about how it’s going to be paid for,” Wynne said Thursday. “I’ve listened to people for years say that they need more investment in infrastructure in their communities.”
She said Toronto, Ottawa and Kitchener-Waterloo want more transit, communities around Toronto need improvements in GO Transit, and other parts of the province want work done on roads, bridges and water systems.
Option A calls for an increase in gasoline taxes starting with three cents per litre in 2015-16, rising another cent a litre until drivers are paying 10 cents more a litre in taxes.
Fully implemented, motorists would be coughing up an extra $2.6 billion more in gas taxes a year.
On top of that, the province would increase corporate income taxes by 0.5% and redirect the GTHA gasoline portion of the HST to transit infrastructure.
Option B recommends a five cents a litre increase in the gas tax, a 0.5% hike in corporate taxes and a 0.5% boost in the HST.
The proposal did not go over well with opposition parties at Queen’s Park.
“It’s a sin tax for drivers,” PC MPP Doug Holyday said, arguing that no tax increase is required to pay for transit.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath objected to any tax increase that would be a direct hit on average families.
“People are feeling squeezed more than ever by job losses and higher bills,” she said. “They’ve been asked to make sacrifices after sacrifices in tough times. They’re paying more in HST, more in hydro bills, even while jobs are being lost and paycheques simply aren’t keeping up.”
Transportation Minister Glen Murray said the report reveals that gridlock costs the average driver about $700 a year, while the gas tax increase would work out to $260 per GTHA household once fully implemented in eight years.
Revenue raised in a community would be spent in that community, so that Northerners would not be subsidizing Toronto transit, Murray said.
The Liberals appeared largely resigned to the Tory opposition to new gas taxes, but took great exception to the NDP position.
Murray even thanked Horwath for sending NDP votes his way by refusing to support most new revenue tools.
“They think that the NDP is bankrupt, that the NDP is becoming (the) anti-transit party,” Murray said. “The NDP have turned themselves into a ridiculous party ... I think many of their members running in Toronto are extraordinarily uncomfortable.”
Wynne said she was surprised that the NDP position on revenue tools doesn’t rest on any principles that party has stood for in the past.
“So that’s why it’s kind of shocking to me that there is no transit plan coming from the NDP and there certainly is no acknowledgement that there needs to be a revenue capacity to pay for transit,” she said.
MAKING THE MOVE
Option A
Gas tax: Increase 3 cents/litre starting in 2015-16, then add one cent a year until gas tax hits 10 cents/litre in eight years for $2.6 billion a year
Corporate Income Tax: 0.5% increase to raise $350 million a year
HST: Repurpose $80 million in existing HST on gasoline in GTHA
Option B
Gas tax: Increase 3 cents/litre starting in 2015-16, then add one cent a year until gas tax hits 5 cents/litre in three years for $1.2 billion a year
Corporate Income Tax: 0.5% increase to raise $350 million a year
HST: 0.5% increase for $1.7 billion when fully implemented
What The Panel Rejected
Highway tolls: too expensive, complicated but panel says worth considering when new transit alternatives in place
(Source: Making the Move: choices and Consequences)
Making the Move: Choices and Consequences, released Thursday by the Anne Golden Transit Panel, has laid out two options to pay for new transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area (GTHA) and transportation infrastructure throughout the province.
The two options would see gasoline taxes rise by three cents per litre starting in 2015-16 followed by one-cent annual increases.
Wynne said her government must now make a decision about which revenue tools to pursue but is committed to finding the funding necessary for large expansion of the public transit system.
“I believe that the progressive position on infrastructure investment is being very upfront and honest with people about how it’s going to be paid for,” Wynne said Thursday. “I’ve listened to people for years say that they need more investment in infrastructure in their communities.”
She said Toronto, Ottawa and Kitchener-Waterloo want more transit, communities around Toronto need improvements in GO Transit, and other parts of the province want work done on roads, bridges and water systems.
Option A calls for an increase in gasoline taxes starting with three cents per litre in 2015-16, rising another cent a litre until drivers are paying 10 cents more a litre in taxes.
Fully implemented, motorists would be coughing up an extra $2.6 billion more in gas taxes a year.
On top of that, the province would increase corporate income taxes by 0.5% and redirect the GTHA gasoline portion of the HST to transit infrastructure.
Option B recommends a five cents a litre increase in the gas tax, a 0.5% hike in corporate taxes and a 0.5% boost in the HST.
The proposal did not go over well with opposition parties at Queen’s Park.
“It’s a sin tax for drivers,” PC MPP Doug Holyday said, arguing that no tax increase is required to pay for transit.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath objected to any tax increase that would be a direct hit on average families.
“People are feeling squeezed more than ever by job losses and higher bills,” she said. “They’ve been asked to make sacrifices after sacrifices in tough times. They’re paying more in HST, more in hydro bills, even while jobs are being lost and paycheques simply aren’t keeping up.”
Transportation Minister Glen Murray said the report reveals that gridlock costs the average driver about $700 a year, while the gas tax increase would work out to $260 per GTHA household once fully implemented in eight years.
Revenue raised in a community would be spent in that community, so that Northerners would not be subsidizing Toronto transit, Murray said.
The Liberals appeared largely resigned to the Tory opposition to new gas taxes, but took great exception to the NDP position.
Murray even thanked Horwath for sending NDP votes his way by refusing to support most new revenue tools.
“They think that the NDP is bankrupt, that the NDP is becoming (the) anti-transit party,” Murray said. “The NDP have turned themselves into a ridiculous party ... I think many of their members running in Toronto are extraordinarily uncomfortable.”
Wynne said she was surprised that the NDP position on revenue tools doesn’t rest on any principles that party has stood for in the past.
“So that’s why it’s kind of shocking to me that there is no transit plan coming from the NDP and there certainly is no acknowledgement that there needs to be a revenue capacity to pay for transit,” she said.
MAKING THE MOVE
Option A
Gas tax: Increase 3 cents/litre starting in 2015-16, then add one cent a year until gas tax hits 10 cents/litre in eight years for $2.6 billion a year
Corporate Income Tax: 0.5% increase to raise $350 million a year
HST: Repurpose $80 million in existing HST on gasoline in GTHA
Option B
Gas tax: Increase 3 cents/litre starting in 2015-16, then add one cent a year until gas tax hits 5 cents/litre in three years for $1.2 billion a year
Corporate Income Tax: 0.5% increase to raise $350 million a year
HST: 0.5% increase for $1.7 billion when fully implemented
What The Panel Rejected
Highway tolls: too expensive, complicated but panel says worth considering when new transit alternatives in place
(Source: Making the Move: choices and Consequences)
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condo总是觉得不爽，每年额外交个7，8000的，心里难受
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那地方的SINGLE很少放盘出来,有些还没等真正放出来AGENT自己就下手办完了...而且基本1000K.
风是很大,特别是顶楼...有12级的时候,人根本站不住.门都推不开.
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加汽油钱,总比加地税强.我估计那帮孙子加完汽油还要加地税...
