Canadian Personal Finance Blog

Santa is coming in March! Benatar), voters will then go to the poles hoping that the Conservatives aren’t “… praying for the end of time…” to quote Meatloaf, on those same promises. There is your confusing and obtuse Federal Budget commentary for the day (you won’t read something like that in the Financial Post, now will you?).

I did manage to submit my taxes last night so that system is back up on line and running, so now I await to see how correct I was in my submissions. Should be interesting to see whether I get the big audit flag for claiming my 3 kids bus passes each month from September onward. Could be interesting. Stay tuned.

The good news is that the Ontario Provincial Government’s DEFICIT (not to be confused with debt) is lower than they thought and it might get lower, which is good to hear. Glad to see a Government able to figure out you shouldn’t spend more money than you bring in.

The bad news is they seem to be doing this off my nickel, which always upsets me. They aren’t contemplating any new tax increases. My guess is because in true Machiavellian fashion they front loaded their term with all the tax jumps they could think of so that once their term is up in a year or two, they can say, “We haven’t raised taxes in 3 years”. The sad part is that there are people who will “buy” that story as well!

The best comment about this came from a Provincial Tory, commenting on the increase in Hydro charges and the new OHIP taxes:

“In fact, consumers today have to fork out about $2,000 more per year than they did before Dalton McGuinty was elected,” said Tory MPP Tim Hudak.

Remember, that is PROVINCIAL taxes, on the Federal side we haven’t had much new, because of the minority government. What a county. –C8j