Repealing the GST on most new home purchases would cost the federal treasury about $400 million to $2 billion annually, says the Budget Office. The largest parties in the Commons have all proposed removing the five percent federal sales tax charged since 1991 on new construction: “The GST was not meant to apply to the basic necessities of food and housing.”
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