Income tax, carbon tax, corporate tax, real estate tax and natural resource royalties would all go up immediately under a B.C. Green Party government, according to platform costing released by leader Andrew Weaver.
Even after counting as revenue the economic growth predicted by the B.C. Liberal budget, and contingency fees built into it, the Greens still project a deficit of $146 million next year and another $71 million in the red for 2019-20.
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Carbon tax would begin increasing on Jan. 1, 2018, expanding two years later to include vented emissions from natural gas and forest slash burning. Carbon tax revenues would rise to $265 million next year and reach $865 million by 2020.
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