Manitoba Election 2019: Party Leaders' Survey

PC:

• Long-term plan to eliminate school property taxes once the budget is balanced. 
• Balancing the budget in 2022-2023.

NDP: 

• Increase the small business corporate income tax threshold from $500,000 to $550,000.
• Balancing the budget in 2022-2023.

Liberal:

• The Liberal Party of Manitoba did not respond to CFIB’s Leaders’ Survey

Green:

• Moving school property taxes into under personal and corporate income taxes.
• Require the public release of a full costing of all significant new government initiatives before they are implemented.

PC:

• No plan to deliver on 2016 commitment to raise the BPE amount by $2,000 by 2020.
• No commitment to not raise taxes or introduce any new ones.

NDP: 

• Increase the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour.
• Eliminate the Regulatory Accountability Secretariat, which oversees the province efforts to measure, track, report and reduce red tape.

Liberal:

• The Liberal Party of Manitoba did not respond to the Leaders’ Survey

Green:

• Introduce a higher carbon tax in 2020 ($50 per tonne), which would increase annually by $10 per tonne.
• Introduce a 35-hour work week.

While the four parties are all offering too little tax relief, there are some areas where the parties share positive ideas:

• Both the PCs and NDP committed to balance the budget in the 2022 fiscal year.
• Both the PCs and NDP committed to work with municipalities to reduce permitting red tape.
• The PCs, NDP and Green Party all committed to allow businesses to choose whether to open on statutory holidays.
• The PCs, NDP and Green Party all committed to bring forward prompt payment legislation or similar changes in the construction industry and work with industry stakeholders.