(Quebec) Promises to return money to taxpayers hard hit by the rising cost of living were quick to come. From day 2 of her campaign on Monday, the liberal leader Dominique Anglade is committed to reducing taxes by 3.8 billion if she is brought to power. It would achieve this in particular by making the rich pay.
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The measures contained in his “Portfolio Plan” were already well known: they had been revealed during the unveiling of the electoral platform this spring.
The Liberal Party calculates that a family with two children would receive $5,000 on average.
Dominique Anglade wants to reduce the first two tax brackets by 1.5 percentage points ($46,295 and less, and above $46,295 and less than $92,580). This would represent a tax reduction of up to $1,125 per year. She promises to abolish the QST on basic necessities (soap, shampoo, toothbrushes, drugs sold without a prescription). She wants to freeze Hydro-Quebec rates and take it off the first $4,000 of the electricity bill. The solidarity tax credit, intended for the most disadvantaged, would be improved.
The PLQ warns that another billion in relief will be announced later in the campaign, including the creation of an allowance of up to $2,000 per year for people aged 70 and over.
Sunday, Dominique Anglade argued that these measures would not be at the cost of a larger deficit or austerity policies.
“When we say that we are going to put money back into the pockets of middle-class Quebecers, it is also because we are going to look for it elsewhere, especially in tax havens, especially in large corporations so that the richest have to pay a certain amount,” she said on Sunday.
A new, higher tax bracket would be created for people earning over $300,000, according to the Liberal platform.