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‘We’re not introducing a provincial sales tax, period’: Redford

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Premier Alison Redford appeared Thursday to rule out any possibility of her government bringing in a sales tax despite pressure from economists and some former cabinet ministers to do so to reduce the province’s dependency on oil.

“We’re not introducing a provincial sales tax, period,” she told reporters following a Conservative caucus meeting at Government House in Edmonton. “I’ll say it again tomorrow if you would like.”

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Taxes, service cuts hot topics at Redford’s economic summit

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CALGARY – Premier Alison Redford’s first economic summit primed Albertans for a consumption tax, foreshadowed coming service cuts and reiterated the need to access new markets for oilsands products.

Virtually all of the economists at the summit agreed a sales tax makes financial sense for Alberta, either because it will lower personal and corporate taxes or because it will underwrite government spending.

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