Top earners pay more in B.C. budget that includes record capital spending
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The Pacific Oral Health Victoria: Top income earners Centre is out to change lives by and pop drinkers were hit offering free smiles to anyonewho with new taxes in is in need of dental care. B.C. budget, which continues The Pacific Oral Health Centre the government’s focus on hosts our 5th Community capital spending for schools, Dental Care Day on Sunday, hospitals and transit. March 15 in memory on Dr. Finance Minister Carole Bud Sipko.
James is introducing a new The Pacific Oral Health Society 20.5 per cent tax bracket that is a registered non-profit organization will cover the top one per cent whose mission is of income earners in B.C., to provide affordable and accessible or those earning more than oral health care to financially $220,000 annually. disadvantaged
James said the government individuals, to support and advancement will also start charging the of the dental profession provincial sales tax of seven with continuing dental per cent on sweetened carbonated education for oral health drinks to help address care professionals, to facilitate the health and economic and provide funding for oral costs of the beverages. health, dental education and As well, the government is clinical research. bringing in a new grant program The dedicated team of dentists this fall for post-secondary and volunteers at the Pacific school students that will Oral Health Centre come together provide up to $4,000 a year and help hundreds of to offset tuition fees, with as many as 40,000 people being eligible for the $24-million program.
James said a record $22.9 billion will be spent on capital projects over the next three years including money for the new St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, student housing and schools for kids in kindergarten to Grade 12. The budget forecasts three successive surpluses with the government finishing 2020-21 $227 million in the black. James said the New Democrat government’s third budget represents a balanced plan that continues its goals of controlling costs for families while giving everybody the opportunity to benefit from the province’s growing economy.
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less incremental revenue than the government is forecasting, and undermine efforts to foster a more innovative, entrepreneurial economy,” Jock Finlayson, the council’s executive vice-president, said in a statement.
Laird Cronk, president B.C. federation of Labour, backed the government’s decision to increase taxes for the highest income earners. “Folks who make over $220,000 a year can afford to pay a little bit more,” he said in an interview.
James said health officials and an all-party finance committee of the legislature called for a so-called sugar tax on drinks. The budget forecasts $27 million in revenue in 2020-21 from the tax, which goes into effect July 1.
“Research shows
that