The main entrance to Victoria General Hospital in Winnipeg is shown on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.
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A total of $635 million is budgeted for health-sector capital projects, including starting the process of opening a new Victoria ER, along with an emergency room in the Interlake community of Eriksdale and a new CancerCare headquarters — all NDP election promises. Manitoba Finance Minister Adrien Sala, shown in a November file photo, delivered his first budget Tuesday, projecting an $800-million deficit. He maintains the government can fix health care and make life more affordable, while also charting a path back to a balanced budget in four years.
He maintained the government can fix health care and make life more affordable, while also charting a path back to a balanced budget in four years.The province is assuming its books will be supported by an extra $960 million in revenue. Tax revenues are projected to increase, including $152 million in added PST revenues due to an expectation of higher consumer spending. Federal transfers will rise by just under $1 billion, to a total of $6.9 billion.The biggest winner in the $24.
The tax rebate for farm properties will be maintained at 50 per cent, while the rebate for other commercial properties is being removed altogether pending the introduction of a new education funding model expected to be released in 2025.While the previous Progressive Conservative government pledged to gradually eliminate the tax altogether, the NDP's new credit will result in some homeowners paying nothing at all, but some others paying more than they were under the PC administration.
There is also a change to income taxes that will see people with net income above $200,000 paying more through a clawback on the basic personal exemption.
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