2nd Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
59 Elizabeth II, 2010
Allan MacMaster
Inverness
First Reading: March 31, 2010
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
This Bill prohibits the Province from proposing or agreeing to an increase in the Provincial portion of the federally enacted harmonized sales tax.
1 Chapter 31 of the Acts of 1996, the Sales Tax Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 5 the following Section:
(a) neither the Government of the Province nor any person on its behalf may, under the Agreement, propose an increase in the rate of tax; and
(b) neither Her Majesty in right of the Province nor any member of the Executive Council on Her Majesty's behalf may amend the Agreement to or enter into any other agreement to increase the rate of tax,
of the Province's portion of the comprehensive integrated sales tax.