Unpopular carbon tax jumps July 1
VICTORIA -- Tomorrow is Canada Day, and what could be more Canadian than paying more taxes?
You don't have to ask B.C. truckers, who will see the much reviled provincial carbon tax rise from 2.69 cents a liter to 4.04 cents a liter on diesel fuel on July 1 -- an increase of about $20 million for the trucking industry.
The carbon tax is intended to rise annually until 2012, when it will reach a whopping 8.07 cents a liter on top of the provincial sales taxes and federal excise taxes that already exist.
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