{"id":22003,"date":"2014-08-15T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T12:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22003"},"modified":"2014-08-15T17:39:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T09:39:39","slug":"new-brunswick-liberals-promise-tax-changes-richest-would-get-new-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/15\/new-brunswick-liberals-promise-tax-changes-richest-would-get-new-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"New Brunswick Liberals promise tax changes, richest would get new rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_63808609.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22129\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_63808609.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_63808609\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_63808609.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_63808609-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FREDERICTON\u2014The New Brunswick Liberals say if elected next month, they would boost revenue by $63 million a year by rescinding a business tax break and increasing taxes for the province&#8217;s richest one per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Leader Brian Gallant says the money would be recovered in part by returning the business property tax to 2012 levels, resulting in $34.3 million in revenue for the government.<\/p>\n<p>He says the move would make good business sense in a province facing a $500-million deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Gallant says the rest of the revenue would come through the creation of a new tax bracket of 21 per cent for those making between $150,000 to $250,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals estimate the new tax would bring in $28.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Gallant says low-income and middle income earners can&#8217;t give any more and the new tax would raise needed revenues from those who can afford it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREDERICTON\u2014The New Brunswick Liberals say if elected next month, they would boost revenue by $63 million a year by rescinding &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}